Destino 2003

A journey unfolds in a barren, dreamlike world where a naked Dahlia moves toward a statue of Chronos, slipping into a nocturnal reverie that blurs the line between waking and sleeping. In this liminal space, her body seems to merge with the statue as she dances in a moonlit atmosphere, wearing a flowing dress. She leans in to kiss the stern Chronos, but the statue melts away, leaving her feeling sad and lonely—a mood that quickly loosens as a chorus of odd, otherworldly statues and dandelion seeds drift on the wind, coaxing her to dance up the spire she stands upon. Reaching the summit, she confronts a troupe of green eyeball creatures; one sports a finger protruding from its eye, and they interrupt her joy. The dress she wears catches on a grasping eye, tearing away and sending her tumbling toward a seashell that dips from the spire. The shell lands into a satchel-like bloom filled with green eyeballs held by a statue on an opposite structure, and Dahlia vaults from it just in time, leaping onto a cluster of floating telephones that hover near Chronos’ statue.

She wakes to a reality where a bell-tower shadow hovers ahead, and the silhouette of the tower feels perfectly tailored to her mood. Dahlia studies the shadow as if it could become a garment, then fuses with it and dances freely in a new, imagined dress. When she tilts her head upward, her head morphs into a dandelion head, its seeds scattering on the breeze. Chronos’ statue stirs and the bird carved on its chest breaks free to take flight, while Dahlia continues to move with a sense of effortless renewal. The scene darkens as a clock beside Chronos begins to ooze a glowing liquid that attempts to restrain the statue, yet Chronos breaks free from stone as ants emerge from his palm and swiftly transform into mustachioed men riding bicycles with bread perched atop their heads.

Surveying the landscape, Chronos notices a dandelion seed that drifts away and reverts to Dahlia, bringing the lovers briefly back into each other’s sight. But a towering structure rises and separates them, reshaping the maze around them. Dahlia responds by sending birds into the labyrinth, guiding Chronos toward an exit, and he finally bows to her with quiet reverence. As Chronos exits the maze, he is suddenly clothed in baseball attire; two elongated-faced tortoises perch atop their shells, and they conjure a dancing woman whose head becomes a ball. Chronos strikes the ball with a baseball bat, sending it into a catcher’s mitt. The mitt itself transforms into a large, cloth-like heart that Chronos pulls toward Dahlia, only for it to be swallowed into his chest where his heart resides.

In the final image, the Chronos statue reveals a hollow where the bird once sat. Looking through this opening, the bell tower Dahlia admired reappears on the far side, suggesting that they have become one—an inseparable union forged by dream, struggle, and fate.