“SAIL ON THE HORIZON”
Collection by: Agnes Anna - Fashion Designer
SOLO TRAVEL
From Hungary to Puerto Rico
BALLET DANCER
Elica R. Caraballo
ENGAGEMENT
From New York to Puerto Rico
CYCLE
The Experience of the Feminine and Life
I feel its arrival, marking its stay. Run through me the cramps, and the blood fluid started.
The blood leaves me, to die and be reborn.
The reproductive system feels uneasy.
Everything becomes cloudy, my mind, my emotions, and my senses. The cold makes me feel sharp pangs inside me.
Everything becomes dark current of energy traps me, and it travels all over my body until it turns into a migraine.
I feel weak, and at any time I will faint.
A fierce swell arrives every month to my body. There are days when the pain is silent.
Then ... it's when I do not want to know anything or anyone. I want to get out of this that traps me. Subtly the cysts explode,
making my interior burn. I keep standing, but it's too heavy, and it makes me fall.
I see blurry; I do not hear well. The pain intensifies, I lose any notion of time, and I’m transported to a desert.
Calm has come, time to absorb energy from the trees, the sun, and the land.
Three weeks have passed. The muscles rip once more; the cycle has begun.
I am as cyclical as Mother Nature.
Project Statement
The series Cycle is a series of fifteen (15) fine art image a combination of self-portraits and landscapes a project inspired by my personal experience. Part of a natural process that as a woman usually have constant changes and happens to us every month. The menstrual period for me from an early age has been one of the experiences that I have suffered the most. Over the years, the intensity of the pain was much stronger. The pain affected my daily routine, studies, and work. Time passed, and the pain increased by the ovarian cysts; the cysts usually appear and disappear regularly.
Within my endometrium was forming obstacles that blocked the flow of my blood. It is called endometriosis, which causes maximum pain. When I moved to San Francisco, cold weather affected the situation and further exacerbated the pain. I am a person born and raised in the tropic when I realized that the pain was fed by the cold I decided to return to the tropical heat.
The tropic inspires me, and nature is part of me, which accompanied me during the trajectory of this project. The landscape is included in this project because I think that nature is so feminine like we the women or we are so cyclical as nature. During the trajectory of the project, I was able to experience changes for the benefit of my health, being in constant connection with nature. While I was posing for the photos, being in contact with the trees, water, and the land for hours that was very medicinal for me. I have had a subtle transformation. Little by little, the pains have been decreasing.
I intend to show the dramatization of different moods and situations that occur during my feminine cyclical experiences. Sometimes the fabrics or elements of a color are used to enhance the story symbolically. The images show a poetic sense through body language, lighting, and scenography. The connection with the whole, nature, and emotions can make the viewer feel identified. As much as the woman, also the man who has had the experience of being next to a woman with this type of indisposition can identify with this series of photographs.