CARLOS SUAREZ

Letter To The Whitney Museum

To whom it may concern,

Your Young American filmmaker series was definitely enlightening, especially the videos and photos of Martine Barrat. But I must say that a showing of this caliber was caged for the sake of awareness.

Can you imagine what the world would be like if people put away prejudice, hate, and ingnorance ? It would be crazy. We might even say that it could inflict the world. What a catastrophe. Can you imagine peace on earth and goodwill? Gang leaders leading this members to construction where they serve as guards and the expression of the artist making not only the trains his galley, but site’s for parks; and brighten up the gloomy buildings. Contained expressions of violence. Violence is energy in negative vibrations, instead violence of positive vibes such as painting, sculpture. Why not express violence in peace like “The Roman Kings” in '“The Trial” and ‘ Vickie”.

Letter sent by Carlos Suarez to Marc Siegel, the curator of the Whitney Museum, the day of the opening of the show. More than 3 200 people came to the show with a lot of enthusiasm. The Gang members were there every day watching the people reading the dictionary of the street language that Carlos Suarez wrote on a paper from the ceiling to the floor.

Charlie Suarez was the most important president of gangs in the South Bronx, he organize a big meeting with all the gangs to end the killing of each other. My big dream is to publish a book with Charlie’s fabulous writing along with my photography as wanted before he died.