LANAMOR, 2002

Mapi Rivera

The heart is in the mystical traditions of Sufism, Hinduism and Christianity a sensitive organ that is capable of perceiving beyond the apparent. Opening the eye of the heart implies expanding the internal gaze, allowing it to widen, to blur its limits in order to “see” the invisible threads that weave the world.

This series of images were imagined in a moment of great tenderness, in which love surpassed my heart. I felt how it expanded, porous, and filled with light. The dress that I created to convey these perceptions has two versions that symbolize the passage from a first feeling of strangeness and recognition in which the heart swells, to a second phase in which the heart affirms and expands this feeling of love and Tender.