With this work, I am engaging the past through my emotions. How and why did they emerge? How were they formulated? Where are they going? What will these emotions evolve into? I believe elaborating on the past is needed to develop a better living future.
This work is a photo story that goes through elaborating the conflicts generated by issues that had have had in life: the lack of dialogue in childhood, physical and psychological violence, grief, rape, and migration. In this series, I am putting myself in nature and entangling parts of my body with vines or other elements such as fences. Choosing to photograph it with 120 mm film was an attempt to produce a short number of meaningful images in opposition to an overwhelming digital production.
untangling knots
The conflicts generated by all of that had been kept in silence for a while. Now, I can speak out loud about the conflicts by creating a story of knots and entanglement, of how those concealed stories affect me, the women in my family, and all the Latin American women like me. Even though the photographs show entanglement, the fact that I am producing them is my way to untangle the knots.