A Coyolxauhqui Collage

This project explores the intersection of praxis, theory, and community through the lens of Gloria Anzaldúa’s “Coyolxauhqui Imperative.” Materials ranged from dried flowers to newly developed film of artivist murals, which allowed Mayorga to consider their relationship with the land and their activist community through a process of gathering, painting, and collaging. By understanding the “clippings” of various materials as “fragments of self” that resemble Coyolxauhqui’s appearance, Mayorga collaged with the intention of piecing the fragments together to form something new. This project, in turn, signified a healing of seemingly disjointed parts that enabled Mayorga’s own “Coyolxauhqui consciousness” to form.

Drawing by Héctor Ponce de León, as seen in Gloria Anzaldúa, "Let Us Be the Healing of the Wound: The Coyolxauhqui Imperative—La Sombra y El Sueno," Voices of Mexico (2018), 120.

“The Coyolxauhqui imperative is an ongoing process of making and unmaking. There is never any resolution, just the process of healing.”

—Gloria Anzaldúa, "The Coyolxauhqui Imperative,” 122.

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