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A powerful collaboration of poetic narrative and raw mixed media art by Rodrigo Palacios, exploring themes of shared identity, transient landscapes, and the lingering reflections of memory.

Neither Dulcinea nor the Escribidor—nor even "the Other"—has seen the unseen hand that governs our words and mirrors our becoming. A reflective journey into art, identity, and the relentless passage of time.

Atop the highest peak overlooking an infinite book, El Escribidor contemplates whether the infinite creations of his mind can reveal the divine. "God’s Dulcineas" is a poignant philosophical prose poem that weaves together themes of authorship, creation, and the limits of proving God's existence.

When flesh burns against skin, passion turns to ecstasy. "Ulcers" delves into the raw, transformative intensity of love and despair, echoing mystical devotion through intimate verse.

"Two faces becoming, wanting to obliterate the dark space between them..." Inspired by the mystical words of San Juan, Ósculo by Rodrigo Palacios delves into the raw, intimate transformation of lovers dissolving into a single, shared identity.

A haunting encounter unfolds in Rodrigo Palacios's poem "Woman Crossing the Seine" (After "The Face of Paris"). Upon returning home to find a mysterious, weeping woman in his room, the speaker shares a disturbing vision of a faceless vagrant in Paris—only for the stranger to turn around with a chilling question.

He used to always kiss me so, caressing my face with his beautiful, aristocratic hands, his scarred, hardened Prussian face and demeanor belying his love and compassion for me. I knew better, though. I could see right through him. He was just one more victim in that camp, just like me.

Framed by Stéphane Mallarmé’s invocation of Edgar Allan Poe, Rodrigo Palacios’s Epitafio invites us to a fraudulent, dilated sea where love, memory, and poetry collide. Accompanied by textured, golden artwork, this piece reflects on mortality, poetic sacrifice, and the quiet tragedy of being forgotten

An exploration of truth, violence, and mediated reality inspired by Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle. Through raw poetry and haunting visual art, "Deconstruction" exposes how life, horror, and intimacy become staged performances, asking us to look past the illusions that feed our daily lives.