Creative work

Placenta eterna — a white flower with water droplets among green leaves

Placenta eterna / Placenta Everlasting

© 2012, photography by María Luisa Ortega Hernández, PhD

Words have the power to create, transform, and elevate life to new heights through a spiritual journey where the visionary is a poet, a woman poet.

"She flies. Flying is a woman's intrinsic gesture, flying in language, making it fly" (Hélène Cixous, La risa de la medusa [The Laugh of the Medusa], p. 60, my translation). "[...] writing is [...] that which is related to [...] what history forbids [...] the living feminine; [...] the desire to go to the very end—a desire just like a woman can unleash—refusing to be subjugated by anything. A desire that imposes needs as values without intimidation by cultural blackmail or the sacralization of social structures; a desire that does not predicate life on the threat of death" (ibid., p. 62, my translation);

«([...] poetry means [...] drawing strength from the unconscious, and the unconscious—that other boundless space—is where those repressed survive: Women or, as Hoffmann would say, fairies.)" (ibid., p. 63, my translation; corrected spelling and punctuation).

It is in one's own voice, in the embodied word, where we find our true dwelling, a home whose walls speak from the inside, revealing both history and identity.

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