Art / LMM
Loving My Mirrors / Amando a Mis Espejos
2023. Drawing, sculpture, and performance.
Visual layers made in real time during EMDR therapy — images that surface between rounds of tapping and eye movement, when language isn't ready yet.
About
In 2021, my father Pascualito passed. EMDR comes into my life as a way to move through the intensity of that loss. The practice combines bilateral stimulation — tapping, rapid eye movement — with guided attention to memory and sensation. I start doodling by hand during sessions and sharing what comes through. Over time I move into a digital format so my therapist Santiago can be part of the construction, prompting questions on the spot as the rewiring happens.
The doodles pull in what's alive for me at the time — my own experiences, the people around me, images, influences, ideas. Some are dense and layered; others, like El Punto, are a single mark, made by deleting every layer we had worked through in that session and leaving only the point.
This is a beautiful process. Through it I program frases de poder into my body, my psyche, my spirit — Soy próspera. Soy la reina de mi vida. Estoy ascendiendo. Capas de constancia. Between 2021 and 2024 I do over 100 sessions. I still do them, sporadically. These are a record of a process. I am grateful.
Notes / Resources
EMDR International Association — emdria.org