Black Sea

THE JOURNEY, DAY 23 …We have begun twenty-three days ago our travel in this agony of the sea. Our hope is dying and also our life, our trip is plenty of misery and the last time we were able to drink it was four days ago, because a terrible storm snatched our water and almost our life. At night, I can´t sleep when I see the boats blindness refusing to give us cover and warehouse, we are afraid and we entrust ourselves to God while we say goodbye to each other. All our life depends on a black sea as furious as the fishermen´s soul….
This text by Fernando Gómez Aguilera outlines the project “The black sea”. It shows the migratory problem, especially in emigrants from Africa, particularly the ones from Senegal to the Canary Island.Initially, to develop this Project, the work was made at “both sides”, firstly at the Cristianos port in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, attending at the cayuco arrivals, and then in Senegal, specifically in Sant Louis, bordering with Mauritania where they live or attend many of the people who leave on fishing boats (cayucos) to try to achieve their dreams.Ángel Marcos presents as the main causes that push people to emigrate, the shortage of basic resources and the desire of better-off people who want to share what we sell as quality of life of the first world. They try over and over again in inhuman conditions to reach the other shore. A shore full of traps and tricks that invite to come, but this invitation make some of them lose their lives, others achieve it and meanwhile there is a great illusion on coming although the price is high.