Lourdes Valdes

TIAMAT

2022

Throughout the past years I have been witnessing the painful wreck of women’s lives and natural environments, two intimately related entities that give meaning to my existence.

I believe that, the imbalances that are evident today in our planet are a product of the unenlightened behavior of humanity.

This experience inspired a photographic project, in the aim to rescue the spirit of an ancient Babylon goddess, TIAMAT, representing the power of feminine:  the origins, the force of creation and dissolution. She……. was slaughtered and dismembered, by masculine power.

Pictures started their path with a feeling of VOID that consumed me from within,  I decided to go to the desert and at my arrival I started EARTHING.

Exploring my surroundings, I encountered vultures, thorns and DEATH, and had a deep desire of becoming prey to slip beneath its wings to glide the skies.

A deep DISSOLUTION process started within myself.

I embrace that all the species in the planet are only one.

Balance needs to be made through the rescue of feminine strength.

We are at once nature and myth