This series of prints was created during my university years and emerged as a space for both technical and conceptual experimentation. Within it, I explored printmaking as a form of serial imagery, not only in terms of its reproducible nature, but as a territory where repetition becomes insistence, gesture, and thought. Each image reappears with slight variations, accumulating tension and meaning, as if the series itself functioned as a process of confrontation.
A significant portion of the images address moments associated with motherhood, a theme that appears not from desire, but from a conscious rejection of becoming a mother. The prints do not seek to idealize or romanticize this imagery; instead, they present raw, uncomfortable, and at times violent scenes that expose the symbolic, social, and bodily weight imposed on the female body. The serial nature of the work intensifies this sense of imposition, as if the image insists again and again on a destiny that is not chosen.
The series also includes a print related to the ingestion of yagé, developed from a personal experience. Rather than offering a literal representation of the ritual, the image operates within the sensory and psychological realm: the dissolution of the body, altered perception, and an inward confrontation. Here, printmaking becomes a transitional space where the visible and the invisible overlap.
Other images introduce symbolic and narrative elements, such as an apple constructed from worms, evoking decomposition, organic processes, and what exists beneath the surface. This image engages with the idea of what appears pure or desirable, revealing, upon closer inspection, simultaneous processes of decay and life.
The series is completed with prints inspired by stories and tales from the Amazon, which appear as narrative fragments and references to a territory charged with myth, orality, and ancestral knowledge. These stories are not illustrated directly; instead, they filter into the images as atmospheres, symbols, and resonances, expanding the field of interpretation.
Taken together, these prints form a body of work in which printmaking and serial repetition become tools to address personal experiences, internal tensions, and cultural narratives, articulating an intense, visceral, and deeply introspective practice.