The images are taken in the style of experience, in the pictures you can see the fleeting instant, that she saw and lived. Elena´s landscapes describe the areas and places she visited in Mexico, but nearly all of them send us comfort, sensations and atmospheres the author probably experienced. Certain landscapes are symbolic, like the one where you can see the depleted field of corn on the side of the road (always the road), which represents in one way or another, the fight of the indigenous people to gain subsistence for farming in the weak and eroded land: or other landscape with bleak, desolated plateau habituated only by Christian crosses. There is a image where the white clouds, with a crystal-clear and intense light, they seem to celebrate in an enthusiastic manner the aridity of the mountains in the desert of San Luis Potosí this image reminds me of the title of the book, if the sky could have mouth, in this picture it would be smiling.. According to the traditions of indigenous Huicholes, in the mountains of San Luis Potosí, the universe was formed. In the mountain called Cerro Quemado the sun was born. A few years ago, I was looking from the desert at the Cerro Quemado with a group of Huicholes, and to make conversation with the chief it occurred to me to ask why, if there are a lot of mountains, did you choose this one in particular? The chief answered me with grate consideration: we did not choose the mountain, the mountain chose us. Maybe Elena did not choose to go to Mexico, Mexico chose Elena. Congratulations.
Text by the photographer and editor Mexican Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, for the book Boca del Cielo