Sana Sana

Sana Sana is a journey in search of inner healing in which I intend to show through images the feeling of pain from which I suffer or suffered from.

Sana Sana (Heal Heal). Si no sanas hoy (If you don’t heal today) / Sanarás mañana (You will heal tomorrow). These verses are taken from a popular South American chant sung by mothers to comfort their children when they get hurt.

Untitled, From Sana Sana, 2017 © Rosa Lacavalla

Since I learned of this nursery rhyme often repeated to me by my husband, these words have acquired a power for which I, in turn, repeat them to myself when I feel in a state of strong stress, of emotional pain, for which I need something to calm me down and go further. Due to different experiences over time, I have often felt unsuitable, incapable, undeserving, anxious. So I had to do something to get it all out and deal with certain anxieties and fears that I dragged along.

I felt the need to give a visual form to these sensations and their resolution. Only by facing them and giving them a shape, albeit metaphorical, I can say that I have freed myself from that specific weight. For this reason, the images take on different meanings, becoming symbolic translations of feelings, moments of comfort and quiet. When we begin to recognize our emotions while we are in the throes of emotional suffering we are already on the way to recovery and it allows us to welcome our feelings with some degree of awareness.

An intricate and often rough path like rock, with the presence of shaded areas, where the cause of the problems and the key to solving them are hidden. Sana Sana becomes a shamanic rite towards inner healing and personal growth, which may not have a real end as growth could continue with the passage of time and new experiences.

However, several episodes have recently taken place that make me believe I’m experiencing the transition into a new phase, finishing a cycle and starting a new one. Everything is impregnated with strong energy, and when they are saturated with it, a kind of energy of anger, of fatigue, of pain, they break.

By learning to read life through signals and symbols, something that breaks is a lightening of our emotional baggage, an invitation to renew ourselves.

Sana Sana is nothing more than a visual translation of my / our energies and emotions which, from the inside, are projected to the outside world.

Sanarás mañana, I repeat to myself, and there will be no more reason to live this “sad melody”.