Olivos y Tarantismo 

Date: 2019 - on going

Materials: Headstock fabric and leather, hand-dyed textile with soil, pastel, wax, ink, water, citrus fruits, charcoal from burnt olive trees collected in Salento, cochineal and indigo from Oaxaca.

This series combines textiles and drawing studies shaped by periods spent in Puglia since 2015. Informed by research on the regional decline of the area’s ancient olive trees, female labor, and the mythology of“Tarantismo”—a tradition of frenzied dance as a cure for women bitten by a tarantula. This project explores movement as a way to heal the body and our (dis)connection to  the land.

Drawing Performance: Buscando Olivos,  Galatina, Puglia, Italia, June 2024