Federico Hernández RuizThought and Action

Thought continues when it finds another form.

These essays do not summarize Thought and Action. They are harvests from its process: autonomous works that carry a question from the book toward body, image, ritual, or territory.

01 · Ritual text

Dirtying One’s Hands

A meditation by the man who creates with clay

A text to be read aloud about the urgency to create, the matter that acquires a life of its own, and the shadows every creator must learn to face.

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02 · Visual essay

Territory and Body

Cracks Through Which the Light Enters

A reflection on photography, body, territory, and repair: to look without extracting, to recognize without possessing, and to make visible the spark held by fragments.

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03 · Illustrated short work

Those Who Cross the Dust

Encounters from Multiversal Mexico

A council of voices, historical figures, and mythical presences that recognizes Mexico as a territory where several times occur at once.

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Each work can stand on its own. At the beginning, the exact links return you to the book chapters from which it emerged; at the end, the sequence continues toward the next work.

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