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Elsa Faudé

KOZMIC BLUES

          The series Kozmic Blues retraces the journey of Ronn, one of the last representatives of the Beat Generation, through a close dialogue between his poetry and Elsa Faudé’s photographies, as an ode to dream against survival. The life of Ronn, a Cherokee poet and blues musician, never recognized by institutions, mirrors the contrasts of a dying American Dream. His body becomes a living memory of queer countercultures and margins of the 1960s, where intimate resistance and collective struggles intertwine. Fragments of a guitar, a raspy voice, yellowed self-portraits, and poems, trace a lost era of free creation in California, alongside his friends Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Peter Orlovsky.                                                                                       Through jazz, blues, automatic writing, and Voodoo incantations, Ronn transforms life into a poetic revolt. Often rejected for his Cherokee origins and his transidentity, displaced from Venice Beach by gentrification and weakened by Covid, Ronn has left Los Angeles at over 80 years old for his native Missouri, in a return to ancestral memory and a freedom away from the Californian delusions. From the Pacific coast to the Midwest, unfolds a geography of decline and rebirth, where beauty, dream, and creation persist as forms of resistance, reappropriation of the self.

 

 
 

“ENDS NO MORE # MY LOVE”

Infinity is a road that never ends.
But it always cross’s over it’s own path.
It never stops at going over just once. But several times.

SEVERAL SEVERAL TIMES – NEVER NEVER ENDING 

See your face once more — Only different.

INFINITY…

Ronn