Lisura Derramada / Spilled Smooth continues my exploration of symbolic forms, with a darker undertow. This body of work reflects on how conflict splits the self—how we fracture in the face of danger, and the permanence of that rupture. Reflecting on the aftermath of collision: the psychological and historical rupture that comes from being both predator and prey, colonizer and colonized, migrant and indigenous. The self fractures and reconfigures, not cleanly but unevenly, leaving behind a residue of contradiction.

Bulls and cows surface here; animals heavy with meaning in my family’s rural hometown, where bull fights drive the economy and memory alike. Their suffering embedded in daily spectacle, while carrying immense emotional capacity.

I look to these beings as witnesses and doubles, their presence shaped by the same colonial histories I navigate within myself. The minotaur also emerged as a figure: part man, part bull, born from punishment, held in a maze, a hybrid being whose captivity echoes my own reflections on inheritance and identity.

The flamingo also returns, a fragile icon of longing, as I continue to wrestle with worth and duality. These works are not reconciliations but containers for tension: between violence and tenderness, between lineage and fracture, between what was passed down and what remains unspeakable; the impossibility of soothing yourself when the dagger is half of you.