When her daughter was born, Raquel Castro made a video diary throughout the first 365 days of her life, so that she could watch it when she grows up. Inspired by that private and documental diary Raquel created a show, a video-letter from a mother to her daughter, or the portrait of a person and the world around her, made live, to be watched in the future.
Almost always, what seemed to have been a day like all the other days, ended up surprising me. Because by forcing myself to relive the film of that day in slow motion, I found myself remembering things, situations, images, people or words, that I have heard or said, that I would have never remembered in any other way. It was important to understand that life is full of the present. A present that we cannot fully encompass. The impression was that, afterall, I had lived much more than what I thought. The video ended up serving as a deposit of those things that would never have a place in my memory. Things I have been through, but that would have, otherwise, ended up excluded from the great narrative of my life.