Vientre (La Mixteca, Oaxaca, 2013-2018) delves into the links and contrasts between beauty and cruelty, between the different facets of appetite in the context of the slaughter of the goat, where the living dead, the pain and the affection occur in the same instant, the same territory. Here there is a land that is still being walked, beaten, sown, the roots intermingle and fight between the past and a new time. Vientre is that cave lair where everything is unleashed, there we return, a humid home where people and animals cohabit, sharing as much as custom, a field that will soon be another. The desert advances, survival changes shape as bodies do. And as they dry in the sun, I dive and wait for the shriek, the movement and the static in the open sky, under tile or cane, so close to the limits of being, the extremes in the raw.