A healer stands in direct relation to both the visible and unseen worlds. The curandera, rooted in Indigenous and mestiza traditions of the Americas, works through an understanding that the body, spirit, and environment are inseparable. Healing is not the correction of an isolated symptom, but the restoration of balance across these realms.

Fragments of mirrored glass are embedded throughout the surface, reflecting the viewer back into the work and suggesting that healing is participatory. One does not observe it from a distance; one enters it.

Natural materials and organic textures speak to a knowledge drawn from the earth—plants, elements, and cycles—while gold fabric woven into braided hair signals both adornment and continuity, linking body to lineage.

Here, the body is no longer only surviving. It is in active dialogue with the world around it.