Alejandra Zamudio’s artwork stems from a committed journaling practice that keeps her engaged with the abundance that can be found in the mundane. The content of her journals populates her large-scale drawings, guides her material explorations and nourishes her zine publication and comic projects.
In the past two years, Zamudio’s work has focused on the symbolic dimension of the menstrual cycle. As her work became increasingly rooted in the body, she began to witness the interconnectedness between her relationships to herself, other women, nature, creation and her own Mother. The menstrual cycle became a frame through which Zamudio can share her vision of life—fluid like a dream, deep like blood.
Through this ongoing project, she has created correspondences between images that populate her inner life and the four phases of the menstrual cycle.
Depicting the guardian angels of her childhood, the stories her mom read to her before bed, the animals that became her friends and the flowers encountered on her daily walks, Alejandra Zamudio uses imagery that responds to seasonal changes both inside and outside the body.
Materially rich and colourful surfaces are central to Zamudio’s work. She places characters alongside text, using varied drawing materials as well as paper collaged and sewn together. This mix of layering and saturation seeks to represent joyful and celebratory expressions of life.
