I came across these photographs some time ago. There were two things that spoke to me upon looking at them. The first there is something very distinctly porteño about them. The second, childhood memories of spending time with my mother while she taught the Saturday afternoon gymnastics classes. To my surprise and delight, my eyes did not deceive me and were taken by the talented Katrina M. d'Autremont, who was living in Buenos Aires and taking classes at Circo Criollo.
Katrina says, "When I was living in South America, I started taking circus classes. One thing that struck me was that the teachers of the trapeze classes were often women with young children. Often their children would be at the classes like at a daycare center, except the babysitters were the students of the classes. Each day these aerial mothers would train for hours as their children grew up into the world of circus arts. To these children what their mothers did each day was normal, and in trying to be like their moms, they fly through the air and grow up with a world most of us only imagine in fiction."
In her photographic essay, Si Dios Quiere... explores the specific roles developed over time within the family. There is something about the kitchen photographs that make me feel quite homesick for Buenos Aires and the Sunday family lunches.
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