TEMPORARY REFUGES
by Dermis León
Alfredo Ramos’ photographic series, Temporary Refuges, registers with forensic thoroughness, the remnants of a sacred ritual carried over by the sea. The images witness the destruction of the sacramental realm, where there was an exchange and where crucial energy was used, symbolized by the animal’s blood (Ebo Eje in the tradition of Yoruba), to repair and restore the absence of equilibrium in regards to human suffering. To return to the natural flow of life and to restore the internal and external imbalance of man with the force of nature, it demands the sacrifice of a living being to act as the middle ground. Thereupon the plants, flowers, and those objects that intervene in the resurrection of said balance, becomes a temporary deposition for human necessities and aspirations that look for resolution in the mediation of the ritual.