Puebla (Mexico), Apr 22 (EFE).- A Mexican artist has created therapeutic dolls in the face of two crises that are going through the country, that of imprisoned women and those who are looking for one of the more than 110,000 disappeared.
Sandra Reyes Rodríguez, a puppeteer by profession, created the workshop “Cuerpos intervenidos” in Puebla, a state in the center of the country, where she seeks for women in this and other difficult situations to release withdrawn emotions.
The artist shared with EFE that this space arose as a result of a strong depression that she had at the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic, for having stopped traveling and performing plays for children and a love break, for which she took therapies to release the feelings that disturbed her.
It was then that, hand in hand with her therapist, she looked for alternatives to get rid of everything that was not letting her live, for which she designed a doll in which she could capture ideas that came to her head.
He began to create his body and extremities with cotton fabrics, which is made up of a torso, two legs and two arms, which can be cream, brown or white, depending on the skin color he wants to represent.
Later he began to draw her face and create her clothes, as well as wrote phrases for her body, achieving an improvement around the problem she was going through.
Sandra “Puppeteer” Reyes, as she is also known, decided to give this workshop aimed at women who were going through the same or worse situations than her, so she created packages called “Threads that tell stories.”
There he grants a separate body for the women to unite, sew it and proceed to tattoo it, paint it and write phrases on it.
With this, women can create a figure similar to the person they are looking for, in the case of seekers.
Some of them place on their faces the photograph of their son or daughter in search or of the lost family member.
She said that some women make particular signs, for example, they simulate a tattoo they had or they put big eyes, thick lips, moles, among other features.
In the case of women in prisons, she said that they express all the feelings they have, such as fear, anger, the desire for freedom or frustration that helps them to move forward in their respective sentences.
Reyes commented that his workshop can be requested to be given to private groups.
It has a significant cost for the purchase of materials, but in some cases it can be free, otherwise it would stop having social meaning, so you can contact her through the Facebook page “Sueños a Mano Muñecas”.
