Daniela Castillejos
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DANIELA CASTILLEJOS’ TREES
BY ELENA PONIATOWSKA
Daniela Castillejos is a 28-year-old little tree who grew a passion for the ahuehuetes in Chapultepec, trees which are grandparents of more than 500 years old. In 1969, one of them, called “El Sargento” (The Sargent), died in front of the Tribuna Monumental (Monumental Platform) and the Fuente de la Templanza (Fountain of Temperance), behind the Chapultepec Castle. Maximilian and Charlotte received it in the heaven of trees. “One of our best memories, in spite of the Mexican tragedy, is the trees of Chapultepec”, they clarified to Daniela and she took out her camera and took photos during day and night until she formed a forest which now walks alone in her photos through the streets of Mexico. Octavio Paz called the ahuehuetes “sabinos” and he used to go for a walk on the Calzada de los Poetas (Road of Poets). Trees stop time; their rings, just like those of Saturn, tell us their hours, days, and years. When Daniela gets married, she will be given a tree ring, carved on the crust of an ahuehuete of Chapultepec and she will recognize her ancestors in it. At the age of 6, Daniela traveled to Europe. She watched her mother take photos or streets and pines, and maybe it was then when her relation with trees and her contact with plants began: trees and plants, those living beings that poor Mexicans hang in Mobil Oil cans from their windows. At the age of 15, her grandmother paid her a trip to India and in that moment she took photos with her enormous Sony Mavica camera. Then she used a digital Nikon. Now she has a Hasselblad film camera just like the one Mariana Yampolsky had, and she has become a photographer of the trees with their manes in the clouds. Ansel Adams is her idol and she would like to capture light just like Rembrandt and Turner did. From her grandmother, Adelita Salazar, a defender of free unions and who was imprisoned for two years in Santa Martha Acatitla for joining the 1968 Student Movement which ended in the massacre of Tlatelolco, Daniela inherited the strong wood of big trees. Her heart sings inside the crust, it emerges above the fog and gives us this series of magnificent photos which remind us that the earth is beautiful and that life deserves to be lived.
DANIELA CASTILLEJOS’ TREES
BY ELENA PONIATOWSKA
Daniela Castillejos is a 28-year-old little tree who grew a passion for the ahuehuetes in Chapultepec, trees which are grandparents of more than 500 years old. In 1969, one of them, called “El Sargento” (The Sargent), died in front of the Tribuna Monumental (Monumental Platform) and the Fuente de la Templanza (Fountain of Temperance), behind the Chapultepec Castle. Maximilian and Charlotte received it in the heaven of trees. “One of our best memories, in spite of the Mexican tragedy, is the trees of Chapultepec”, they clarified to Daniela and she took out her camera and took photos during day and night until she formed a forest which now walks alone in her photos through the streets of Mexico. Octavio Paz called the ahuehuetes “sabinos” and he used to go for a walk on the Calzada de los Poetas (Road of Poets). Trees stop time; their rings, just like those of Saturn, tell us their hours, days, and years. When Daniela gets married, she will be given a tree ring, carved on the crust of an ahuehuete of Chapultepec and she will recognize her ancestors in it. At the age of 6, Daniela traveled to Europe. She watched her mother take photos or streets and pines, and maybe it was then when her relation with trees and her contact with plants began: trees and plants, those living beings that poor Mexicans hang in Mobil Oil cans from their windows. At the age of 15, her grandmother paid her a trip to India and in that moment she took photos with her enormous Sony Mavica camera. Then she used a digital Nikon. Now she has a Hasselblad film camera just like the one Mariana Yampolsky had, and she has become a photographer of the trees with their manes in the clouds. Ansel Adams is her idol and she would like to capture light just like Rembrandt and Turner did. From her grandmother, Adelita Salazar, a defender of free unions and who was imprisoned for two years in Santa Martha Acatitla for joining the 1968 Student Movement which ended in the massacre of Tlatelolco, Daniela inherited the strong wood of big trees. Her heart sings inside the crust, it emerges above the fog and gives us this series of magnificent photos which remind us that the earth is beautiful and that life deserves to be lived.
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