THE NEVERENDING HOUSE
Las Pozas: the house of Sir Edward James, an underestimate Surrealism’s father; it is a petrified dream swallowed by Mexican jungle.

Sir Edwards James was an eccentric, noble English man, a friend and Maecenas of joung Salvador Dalì and Picasso and the director of the legendary Surrealist review Minotaure. One day he arrived at Xilitla, a wet and lost village in the west of Mexico, and lived there for more than twenty years. He was bathing in a crystalline stream’s pond, in the middle of the jungle when all in a sudden, he had been covered by vermilion butterflies. Moved by this enchanting vision, he decided to have his house built in that very place. The house structure is oneiric: it reminds Hescher’s drowings. There are stairs that come out of nothing, climbing arches that don’t support anything and steep spires that float high, surrounded by the trees. Everything now has become part of the thick vegetation that wraps this non-house that can’t be watched entirely from nowhere. It is a never-finished house that maybe could have never been finished.