Mother Mountain

Mother Mountain is a new body of sculptural work that reflects on the mother as a powerful, mythic presence, an inner landscape we spend much of our lives trying to understand. I am a mother, and I have a mother; this dual position shapes the emotional and symbolic terrain of the series.

Across cultures, mountains are sites of origin and creation, places where the earthly and the divine meet. They are sources of water and life, embodiments of ancestors, and metaphors for endurance, protection, and spiritual ascent. Many civilizations have understood mountains as an axis mundi, a cosmic center linking heaven, earth, and the underworld.

In this series, the idealized mother becomes a metaphorical mountain: stable yet flowing, nurturing yet formidable, a life source shaped by time and pressure. The title also subtly echoes the Sierra Madre, grounding the work within a Mexican landscape of maternal strength and continuity.