Performance Art Piece: Collaboration with Monica Villarreal, Eneraya Salazar, Joyce Day, & Chloe DeHoyos
Title: Reflections of Coatlicue (Reflections of our mother the creator and destroyer)
Description: A performance that connects land with the human reproduction system in reference to being givers of life and death. Giving birth is a gift that is carried out in a womb. We can see the representation of this in nature as simple as when the seasons change or as complex as our creation stories. The same way we have cycles of change in our human bodies, so does the earth. Sometimes within those changes there are rejections of something that can be harmful or of things that just can’t be explained. For example, a miscarriage or birthing a stillborn may cause someone to loss trust in their capabilty as a birthgiver. Within nature such as with the human body there are incidents that can’t be explained which create physical and spiritual scars. Often, these scars are not absent of trust. After such instances, trusting others, trusting ourselves, and loving ourselves can be difficult but can easily be learned by observing how nature replenishes itself. This performance is a representation of the battle we fight internally with ourselves when we lose trust. And how the path to trusting ourselves is as simple as reconnecting with our original mother, earth.
