Entrompe

2 rocking chair runners

2018

The title, Entrompe, is a Caracas, Venezuela, street slang term for “in your face” or “getting in your face.” Basically, aggressively dealing with another person. This piece consists of two sets of rocking chair runner rails leaning in toward each other, balancing entrompe, as it were. The lack of actual chairs above creates a negative space where two ghosted characters face each other, perhaps kissing or caught in a posture of eased or piqued aggression, rocking time away awaiting peace or more strife. The rocking chairs are also reminiscent of a time past, in which Venezuela’s generation of “boomers” or older lived in a country less violent and more democratic than the post-50’s dictatorship, where society could rock back and forth enjoying looser expenditures of time, though possibly to the culture’s demise.