Sentiments
Sentiments is a series born from the need to speak about what is felt, especially —and above all— that which does not always find words. It is a visual investigation of emotion as living matter, the body as a sensitive territory, and memory as something that transforms over time.
I mainly work with the Polaroid Emulsion Lift technique, a manual and experimental process that allows me to detach the image from its original support and manipulate it with my hands, as if it were skin. In this intimate gesture —sometimes delicate, sometimes rough— photography ceases to be a record and becomes an experience. The emulsion wrinkles, stretches, overlaps, breaks, and reunites, revealing the fragility and strength that coexist in every emotion.
The works that make up Sentiments speak of vulnerability, exposure, desire, fatigue, freedom, and transformation. Pieces like Sal, Vanidad, Revelado, or Diplopía explore different emotional states from a corporal and sensory perspective, where the image does not seek perfection but honesty. Black and white accentuates this nakedness: there is no artifice, only emotion embodied in matter.
At the core of the project, the mural Nacidas para agradar gathers portraits of women experiencing different emotional states. Each portrait, integrated into its own canvas, is joined to the others through manual stitching, forming a collective work. This act of sewing the canvases together becomes a symbolic gesture: holding each other, repairing, and no longer apologizing for feeling.
Sentiments does not propose closed answers. It is an invitation to look slowly, to accept imperfection, and to recognize that, often, the truest things appear precisely in what wrinkles, breaks, or reveals itself without permission.
"Vanidad" Polaroid Emulsion Lift on Canvas. "Sumergida" Polaroid Emulsion Lift on Canvas. Dimensions: 30 x 40 cm. Year: 2025. Dimensions: 30 x 40 cm. Year: 2025. Available for acquisition. Available for acquisition.
"Nacidas para Agradar"
A tapestry of resistance.
This mural gathers 252 Polaroids. Twenty-eight portraits of women, four emotions, and a single thread. Each image has been developed, manipulated, onto a hand-prepared canvas. Sewing becomes a symbolic act: joining the pieces, holding each other, and no longer apologizing for feeling.
This is not just an image; it is time, dedication, and emotion. It is my way of saying everything we leave unsaid. Each portrait takes hours, sometimes days. It's not just the Emulsion Lift technique —shooting, separating the emulsion, shaping it— but the energy and the story at stake in every fragment. It is a slow process that forces me to slow down, to be present, and to build myself while everything changes. It is artisanal, physical, and emotional. Like being a woman, like being a mother, like living far away.
This is how I scream to the world
"You have to endure, even when it breaks your soul. You have to please, even if you lose your voice. Be delicate, take care, be thin, be pretty... Mother? Are you crazy? When is the second one coming? You want to be an entrepreneur? You can't. You're a mother, you're crazy."
These words are not just phrases; they are invisible chains that bind us, whispers repeated until they hurt our skin and hearts. This project emerged from an explosion of mental load, voices I heard and were told to me, mostly from women. It's an endless list of demands that wear us down and silence us.
If you've made it this far, I invite you to pause, breathe, and remember that inside each of us lives a brave woman who deserves to be heard and loved. Because we all carry an important woman in our lives who deserves respect and freedom.
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