“Writing is so often remembering what never existed. How will I ever know what I don’t even know? Like this: as if I remembered it. With an effort of memory, as if I had never been born. I was never born, I never lived: but I remember, and the memory is raw.” - Clarice Lispector, Agua Viva. An invoice for flowers of the Myosotis variety, an herbaceous plant with blue flowers, commonly known as nomeolvides (forget-me-not), symbolically associated with memory and remembrance. One of the most popular legends about the origin of the name “nomeolvides” tells of a medieval knight who, while picking these flowers for his beloved on the bank of a river, fell into the water under the weight of his armor. Before drowning, he threw the flowers to her and asked her not to forget him.

Text by Vanesa Peña Alarcón