Candelaria Y Payaso Triste

“Candelaria y Payaso Triste” is a visually stunning and deeply personal poetic-cinematic journey set against the shimmering stillness of the Lower Arroyo Seco Park Casting Pool. This evocative performance unfolds as a symbolic funeral march, a poignant ode to the artist’s mother, Candelaria, whose memory is embodied by a striking White Cadillac leading the procession. The work moves through sorrow not as spectacle, but as inheritance. At its spiritual center stands Payaso Triste, the filmmaker’s uncle, who, despite living with schizophrenia and obesity, serves as a vital medium. He guides a silent procession of clown spirits, unseen protectors, ancestral witnesses, and subtle guardians of our daily lives, embodying grief in its most human and theatrical form. Blending theatre, cinema, and fashion into a unique performance. The narrative, structured in a seven-part play, delves into themes of motherhood, loss, memory, community, and the often-unseen spiritual forces that shape our lives. An ode to the belief that water remembers, that the stories we inherit ripple through us, shaping how we grieve, how we heal, and how we honor where we come from. Each segment of the performance is accompanied by its own distinct backdrop.