I photographed bird cards from a Canadian board game and Mexican stationary bird monographs. I made diptychs where I inserted one of these representations of birds in different Canadian landscapes. In the first two pairs, one photograph shows an English-named bird and another with the name in Spanish. These bird images are set in the middle of the Canadian landscape. In the other two, only the bird species changes. In the first case, the two languages refer to the outsider's presence and how the locals and the foreigners coexist on one piece of land. In the second case, the simple change of type of bird refers to assimilation and the inevitable difference that does not cease to exist and marks how we see, how we are seen, and the degree to which we understand and are understood.

Proyecto apoyado por el Sistema de Apoyos a la Creación y Proyectos Culturales (SACPC).