Self-published, 2024. Edition of 300 copies. Hardcover, 144 pp., 96 color illustrations, 200 x 240 mm. Photographs by Trinidad Carrillo. Text by Jorge Villacorta (English). Design by Eric Dahl Palmér.
Oneiromance is stylishly and luxuriously designed and begins with texts and photographs under the heading Hypnagogia. In the hypnagogic stage between wakefulness and sleep, hallucinations may occur. Or as the National Encyclopedia describes them: vibrant, often terrifying delusions...
Once opened, this book lures the mind into liminal space, a twilight zone where the living and the dead, in a strange symbiosis with plants, might see each other through a glass, darkly. And talk, lost in dreams. There is a sense of foreboding in some passages where text and image confront each other, but also pages where playfulness seems to spring eternal -like hope-, to the delight of the perplexed who wade through words, caught in the whirligig of invention, while glowing colours vibrate in the stillness of a beach at the end of the world and one is invited to revel in mindscapes of uprooted, unspoken, uncanny beauty.
In a time defined by the urgency of loss, and by the experience of division, extinction and obliteration in the instant the flame lasts, it might seem risky or evasive to take refuge in dreams, or in the melodies that the master plants sing, but I believe that the path that Trinidad is proposing is the opposite of escapism. In dreams, and in what they reveal to us, we are in conversation with ourselves and therefore, in other worlds, perhaps we can imagine another reality to add to our own.
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