Inspired by the larger than life character that was Maria Felix, and her blueprint to mexican feminism on TV, she is shown shadowed by the opression of mysogonistic Mexico.
“The myth of María Félix is different,'' wrote Octavio Paz, Mexico's Nobel Prize-winning poet,  "María Félix is a woman - such a woman - with the audacity to defy the ideas machos have constructed of what a woman should be. She's free like the wind, she disperses the clouds, or illuminates them with the lightning flash of her gaze.''
 
Graphite, embroidery thread and freshwater pearl on paper
11x17 inches
May 2020