Signed; Sonia Celma - Columna [1st Edition] - 2024

The orthopedic surgeon measured her body with the instruments on my drawing table, like an architect of the human body.
Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.
Age 9, 28-degree deviation.
Orthopedic brace 20 hours a day and rehabilitation.

When my daughter was diagnosed with scoliosis and they showed me her X-ray,
I didn't see a human body, not for seven years.

As an architect, I only saw a column that needed my intervention to regain its balance.

Like the column in Vitruvius's Temple, I only accepted the symmetry, proportion, and verticality of the "well-formed" body, the unit of measurement for all architecture.

From that moment, our "work" began.

I became the basso continuo that accompanies its melody,
giving it harmonic support.

The column is the necessary support for balance, but when the overloads cannot be borne, cracks begin to appear;

Empty spaces where silences, contradictions, and doubts reside.

The music we created was the material that served to seal the cracks in our structure, restoring balance and grounding all the tension.

Sonia Celma