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Will you trust her?

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Will You Trust Her? is a glitch-looped video created through digital painting, AI collaboration, and glitch techniques. The work moves in a continuous cycle, unresolved and deliberately open, embodying the emotional and symbolic tension between femininity and water. This piece flows from personal narrative into a broader mythic channel drawing from archetypes like Ophelia, La Llorona, Mami Wata, Virgina Woolf, sirens, mermaids, and countless unnamed women tied to water across cultures. Femininity and water are forever linked through biology and spirituality linked by the moon. Through these cycles and tidal connections rituals of loss, power, and transformation emerge. The spiritual feminine experience is inherently liminal and I hope to honor and express that experience in a personal offering to all those women who have drowned either literally or metaphorically in the collective inherited pull of grief's undertow. It is always said healing isn't linear. That it comes in waves. Sometimes I feel like I’m drowning, sometimes I pretend I have gills, and sometimes I surface feeling moments of relief. I created and formatted this piece specifically for the Transmuta exhibition at Utopia Barco, a museum shaped like a ship, resting on the ghost lake of Texcoco which was once the heart of Tenochtitlan - the capital of the Mexica (as known as Aztec) empire. I grew up part of my childhood beside another sentient lake in the Americas: Lake Superior, where my biological family worked as fishermen and ship mechanics descended from immigrants and Vikings. The nautical themes aligned serendipitously to reveal how our connection to water further transcends beyond only femininity or one culture. The deep truth illuminated is our exploration and respect for the mystery of water (in turn, the unknown) is another universal human experience. When it is displayed, I like to imagine it's a transmission from one lake to another, sharing collective memories and myths that offer paths of solidarity, healing, and relief, all initiated with a question of: Will You Trust Her?

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