la hechicera / Hechicera

This piece belongs to the Lunaciones serie, where I explore the symbolic and organic relationship between lunar cycles and the female menstrual cycle. It connects to the premenstrual phase, aligned with the waning moon, autumn, and the archetype of the Sorceress. It is a moment of introspection, withdrawal, and returning to the root before the bleeding begins—a silent transformation, an inner journey.

I use cornstarch hardening as part of the material process, honoring the fragility and memory embedded in the textile. The fabric, present as both body and language, functions as an identity symbol and a bodily extension. It embodies the feminine not only in form but as a link between body, cycle, matter, and nature—at once vessel, seed, and bloom.

Like the cycle it represents, it is in constant transformation: transition, memoria, and preparation.