The artist was invited to a residency (AccionMAD Festival) in Columbiello, Asturias. Here, the selected residents were taken around the small mining town and asked to construct a piece for the town, in the town: it was a study of space, a study of the area and its inhabitants. 

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Huellas II is exactly this. The space selected was an old, reformed wash-house or lavoir where the women of the town would wash their clothes and rags by hand. It was a place of conversation and gossip, a local meeting point specifically for women.

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With this in mind, the artist did a study of the surrounding area's colors and tonalities. Here, burnt orange was the liveliest and most common color. To obtain this color. the artist opted for only using and creating objects that were either found or bought in the area:

 

A white dress with a crocheted white mantel sewed unto it

Pieces of broken ceramic shingles for the burnt orange pigmentation

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What was studied was how this foreign body could leave an ephemeral trace in the space, and how the territory could leave a mark on the body--through an everyday action: washing.

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Body treated as object.

Feminine disguised as fragile.

Fragility seen as strength.