With the confinement we have had to create new routines, and for those of us who live in the buildings of the cities, which has had to do with the development of different relationships with nearby neighbours (fortunately also with traders who are close to home). In our case, this has been the case; in one way or another, along with the implementation of the state of alarm, we started to feel the responsibility of those who were close.
"With the confinement we have had to create new everyday life, and, whether we like it or not, for those of us who live in urban buildings, it has had to do with the development of different relationships with nearby neighbors"
That first weekend, I saw myself making a map of neighbors, putting each one at risk. In this work, we observed that a quarter of the neighbors were women older than 75 years who lived alone. The distance was the one that forced us to go from door to door from the twelfth to the first floor, in order to know how people were.
These first, second and third visits, two meters away, knit a new daily routine, leaving aside the relationship that was originally based on greeting. Because of that, we started to get to know their long lives. We knew the challenges of Delia coming from Huesca and her husband’s situation. We discovered that the Asturian María Socorro has been the protagonist of a history of flight that took place in favor of a life based on autonomy. We were surprised by the hardness of the life of the Azagra Conchita, although far from its obvious joy.
The empanadas, cakes and muffins that have made us represent Silvia Federici, over and over again, repeating around Africa: adult women never want to sell the cow or cut the tree because they are the root and the protector, always have in mind the survival of the community.