In Trajines, I presented an installation that reflects the internal and external experiences I lived through due to the bullying originated by “wearing” a human costume different from the others: I was wearing an Asian girl's costume at the Catholic Active School, in San José, in 1987.

It is a textile piece, yellowish -like the color of Asian skin-, semi-transparent -as a representation of a cape-, with a length of 9 meters and with loose red seams -in reflection of an infinite number of possibilities-. It hangs on a hook, as a direct visual reference to the first work I painted with this theme, in 1987. Behind the dress I wrote a text -which can be glimpsed through the transparency- indicating “A life of lives sustained by brevity”, alluding to the multiplicity of experiences -dresses- that each person experiences together with the human costume that was given to them -without choice- at birth.

In addition, the piece is exhibited next to a series of tools and supplies so that people could intervene it, starting with introspection and sharing their own “journeys” associated with their “human costumes”, that is, to tell those stories that from aspects of their physical existence, from their human costume, influenced their decisions and course of life.