Giving Birth to Myself in the Amazon Jungle of Peru Las Gotas Painting

I don't know how I got there. But I found myself there, burning up, in some kind of primordial ooze. Reptilian, undefined, unindividuated. Scales, and talons and claws and feathers, sprouting but never becoming. I was drowning in a writhing heaving mass, I felt like I was in labor, trying to give birth to myself. At some point I was finally able to rise from this heaving, steaming, teeming ooze. Rise up as a woman, as a human, as a being. It was as if from all that teeming mass, I gathered myself into me. I spoke the words "Yo puedo", "I can". I found my strength and I began to rise, to give birth to myself. I felt like I had tapped into one of the sacred memories of all womankind. These paintings, illustrate some of the feelings I had during this profound experience in the Amazon jungle of Peru. They are painted with natural vegetable and mineral tints found in a mercado in the Sacred Valley, and were painted at an artist residency in the jungle in December of 2014. They are painted with natural tints I bought near Matchu Picchu and brought into the jungle with me. This one is called "Las Gotas" which represents pain of a woman and the healing that is possible once that pain is felt.

Painting:Watercolor on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:24 W x 17 H x 0.1 D in

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