MISCELLANEOUS
In this section of La Voz del hijo you can find poetry, thoughts, drawings, paintings, sculptures; all kinds of art through which adoptees express themselves.
Anime ghost
Anime ghost"...Continuous spiral dejavu. Illusory damnation. Child's gaze torn off, forgotten in some dirty, damp room after the first cry. The basins still bleeding, and borrowed eyes. Pain. I adapt to life, to that death-life, like a ghost, locked away deep inside....
Anime ghost
Anime ghost"...Continuous spiral dejavu. Illusory damnation. Child's gaze torn off, forgotten in some dirty, damp room after the first cry. The basins still bleeding, and borrowed eyes. Pain. I adapt to life, to that death-life, like a ghost, locked away deep inside....
Adoptee Reconstruction
Adoptee ReconstructionVirginia Jordá is a multidisciplinary artist with a degree in Fine Arts. Her creative universe revolves around themes such as identity, adoption and emotional ties. Formally, the artist uses materials whose characteristics are related to...
To say goodbye is to look myself in the mirror.
To say goodbye is to look at myself in the mirror.Poem 4The beginning. What most often born and dies In an instant Possibilities One morning, the handles of possibility moved and I was born At the beginning, I was blurred on someones back I lost sight of myself in...
A shift happens when you start telling your story.
A shift happens when you start telling your story...Poem 3“A shift happens when you start telling your story. In the beginning, it can be scary. You might fear no one will understand. You worry people will turn on you. Or even worse, no one will listen. But if you get...
Mother
MotherPoem 2Mother, you brought me into this world, you gave me life, you suffered for me, you sacrificed yourself for me, you gave me up because you thought your love wasn’t enough for me, I want to tell you, thank you for your suffering, thank you for your...
And… Why? I don’t know
And... Why? I don't knowPoem 1Who are you? Where are you? What do you look like? And… Why? Not one day goes by without me thinking of you, without me asking about you. Day after day I dream of you. I imagine you physically and personally. I invent your thoughts, your...
Lucid
LucidFor adoptees, the journey is never over. It evolves, it twists and turns, but it never ends.I reunited with my birth family in Taipei, Taiwan, in January 2012, during the Lunar New Year. I can’t even begin to express what a life-changing event it was. I met my...
Grief
Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.
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