To be a flower or to be a rock is the result of the collaboration between photographer Luz Soria and model Lucas Días (photographer and art director based in Barcelona). After the shooting Soria made these collages where Lucas sometimes plays a flower power boy, and sometimes he plays a rock star. Flowers and rocks.
“I arrived Madrid three months ago. And I still don’t know whether to be a flower or to be a rock.
I’m obsessed about plastic everywhere, specially in supermarkets.
I get home and vegetable’s plastic packs sound reminds me of the sound of a birthday gift package when a child. Plastic brightness is like sweat skin in summer, a just showered body, my lips looking for a kiss.
To take a huge bag of something, that contains smaller bags of something, with individual mini bags of something, reminds me of taking out the recyclable trash, a newly put condom, or one right after sex.
The flat and uniform texture that I touch when I’m choosing something at the Chinese shop, is the same texture that I feel when I’m at home passing with my index finger, on this small screen, one by one thousands of candidates in Tinder, all different all the same.
The vapour stuck inside the plastic that wraps the reheated food, is the same that was left in his room after fucking, is the same that was on Cabify windows that you took after fucking. You got home, I was eating reheated food at the moment you told me. That night it was raining. Our windows at home were also fogged.
New toys plastic smell reminds me Gran Vía huge clothing stores, the artificial orange juice in a franchise.
I’m in the subway and I see a man with an Ikea plastic bag. The same blue bag where you used to put clean clothes, take them to the terrace, hang them in the sun, pick them up later and return them to that bag. An Ikea plastic bag. The same bag as this subway man’s. I have no idea what’s in there.
Sometimes I just feel asphyxia. I don’t know whether to be a flower or to be a rock. I don’t know if I like rock stars or if I prefer a flower power boy.
What I do know is that I want to stay. Madrid is zarpado. Madrid is for Luz what New York was for Patti Smith some years ago. I mean it.
New York is the thing that seduced me.
New York is the thing that formed me.
New York is the thing that deformed me.
New York is the thing that perverted me.
New York is the thing that converted me.
And New York is the thing that I love too.”
(Patti Smith in “Dream of life”)
Credits:
Photography, collage and text by Luz Soria
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Model is Lucas Días
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