FACE FOR THE ALGO, 2025 Available now at Dale Zine and Easy Peasy Tattoo
This photo series is collaborative community project for “Face For The Algo”,
a 2025 calendar spread with different artists creating individual portraits.
The calendar proceeds go to @miamiworkerscenter and @wecount!
In collaboration with artists Agua Dulce as subject and Luz Estrella as project manager, Studio provided by @takecarebodywork, and featured friends include
This year’s collaboration for the calendar focuses on themes of “Gentle Work”.
For our community, Self Care can be an act of allowing loved once to pour back into your cup.
In our most painful moments, Queerness is resillient through the collective conscious. The Queer Community can never truly be erased when we keep the memory of those who came for before as we fight for those who are still trying to carve out their future. To be embraced is to feel genuine love passing through our when you are held by your chosen family, when you are held by those that you and feeling warmth even if you are reminiscing the best memories of your life with loved ones.
Additional thanks to: Take Care Holistic Massage & Bodywork, Josh Aronson, Akia Dorsainvil, Franklin Cruz, Adaeze, Aliyah, Alo, Elena, Julie Frances, Chromat, Lakshmi and Kenza’s Home, Dr. Epe, Alexandra Fields O’Neale, Barbara Caridad Meulener, Claudia Maria Navarro, Omolara Williams McCallister, Starr Abraham, Vanny V, Juancy, Amal Rogers, nat ebanks sassine, Nasim, Haiwen, and Finca Morada
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FACE FOR THE ALGO, 2024
This photo series is collaborative community project for “Face For The Algo”,
a 2024 calendar spread with different artists creating individual portraits.
The calendar proceeds went to @lovetheeverglades, @miamiworkerscenter, @wecount!, @transsocial, & @palestinianyouthmovement
In collaboration with artists Agua Dulce as subject and Sabrina Diaz as project manager,
I considered how a figure as iconic as La Pata Sola could be reclaimed in this project. What if we take an urban legend of a demonized femme, and instead shift her narrative to empower resistance. Many regions of Colombia where this folk In our white supremacist hetero-patriarchal cis-male led society, that which opposes these identities is brought into question, negated, and made to look evil.
Patasola is a figure in Colombian lore; she’s portrayed as a beautiful woman who lures men into the forest and then reveals her true demon self to kill them. Many regions have different origins of how this woman became a monster. She’s used by many as a folklore to scare women into fidelity and piety - however, if you read deeper into her story, topics of sex trafficking, male infidelity, misogyny, and control are all evident. If this is what she opposes, why would we not glorify the demon. Why wouldn’t we want to celebrate the grotesque. To decolonize is to uplift that which the white man has deemed unlovable, & in turn, loving that within ourselves.
Read more about the legend of La Pata Sola here!
https://www.todacolombia.com/folclor-colombia/mitos-y-leyendas/patasola.html
Or wiki for the various versions from the different regions of Colombia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patasola
Additional thanks to: Starr Abraham, Luz Estrella Cruz, Nina Mayers, Bean Blackett, Pinky, Gross Clinic Kitchen, Nasim, Andrea Garcia, Daniela Tabbara, Trevor Owens, Dr. Epe Parrado-Ortiz, jose santiago castro, and Mar Sublaban.
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