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¿Qué necesita nuestro país para volar como una paloma? 

Formula secreta:
Para volar libre como el vuelo de una paloma debemos usar el Teorema de Arquímedes ya que realiza un empuje ascendente.
El empuje es de dirección vertical y ascendente ya que es motivado por el principio de Arquímedes. 
El empuje se da por tres razones: 

• volumen de la paloma, densidad del aire y gravedad de la paloma. 

Gracias a esto la paloma puede tener un mejor vuelo. 

Ambas fuerzas (vertical y ascendente) están localizadas en el centro de gravedad de la paloma, por eso es que la paloma esta bien equilibrada.

El principio de Arquímedes es un principio físico que afirma que: «Un cuerpo total o parcialmente sumergido en un fluido en reposo, recibe un empuje de abajo hacia arriba igual al peso del volumen del fluido que desaloja».

Se traduce a:
La paloma, Puerto Rico, sumergido en las profundidades políticas, económicas y culturales en un limbo, recibe un empuje de abajo hacia arriba utilizando el recurso más valioso, nuestra base comunitaria, nuestra gente. Ese empuje equivale al peso del volumen fluido que desaloja, que equivale a la misma fuerza extranjeras que nos ataca. Así seremos libres.

La fuerza
Desplazamiento
Centro de gravedad

Grand Central Art Center, Cal State Fullerton, Santa Ana, Los Angeles

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

El viaje, 2000. Grand Central Press. Etching, shaped plates, edition of 30. Image size 22x 30, paper size 22x30 inches
Project: Exhibition GCAC Gallery, Juegos Ilegales and print edition with James Lorigan

Enlace:  Education: Artist-In-Residence Program

Anaida Hernández Artist -in- Residence, 2000

By Mike McGee
Curator

Aniada Hernandez is a Puerto Rican artist who is currently living in Brooklyn, New York. Originally trained as printmaker, Hernandez has been working as a sculptor and installation artist for the past twenty years. Her work is often collaborative and community-based. In recent years, she has engaged such issues as immigration, domestic violence, human rights, and cultural dislocation.

This print was published by Grand Central Press and produced by master printmaker James Lorigan at Watermark Printmaking in the Cal State Fullerton Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana. Hernandez was the artist-in-residence at the center in January/ February 2000. During her residency Hernandez went to local shoe repair shops and asked them for old shoe soles. She intended to gather 150 pairs of soles and use them to create an outdoor installation in the promenade plaza in front of the art center.

Hernandez laid out all thhe soles she collected in her studio; increasingly she became interested in the diversity of patterns on the soles. To create this print Hernandez worked with Lorigan to etch the image of the soles from a Birkenstock sandal in a zinc plate, diligently etching the plate to achieve the same depth of relief in the original sole. The outline of the sole was then cut out with a jeweler's saw so that the image would emboss into the paper.Hernandez is also interested in the metaphoric and symbolic aspect of the shoe soles.

Shoes are also emblems of identity, providing indications of social class, societal roles, and even nationality and geographic location that have cross-cultural and international meaning. And, from the jackboot to the mobility limiting high heel, shoes are about power.

Walking is the most basic and essential form of human transportation. Since the beginning of time people has traveled to pursue aspirations that would improve their lives. The footprint is a form of documentation, a record of where people have been and where they are going.

During her artist-in-residence Hernandez also created as series of 150 small one-inch square linoleum-cut stamps of images and symbol-mostly of images she discovered in Santa Ana. Rather than assign a traditional written title to the print she used two of these stamps to serve as a visual title or reference. A red arrow and airplane are imprinted on each print where the title is customarily placed. The arrow is a universally understood sign indicating direction. The airplane is a rich emblematic contemporary symbol that represents the most advanced form of transportation on earth, a testament to human achievement, and a vehicle for hopes and aspirations.

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