This piece, Sisterhood, is part of the chapter Where My Belly Button is Buried, from my series I’m from Yalálag. In it, I have embroidered some of my family photos, a craft that my grandma passed to her daughters and granddaughters. Sisterhood is composed of two photos from my childhood, one portrait of my sister and another of myself at my grandparent’s home in Yalálag, my ancestors’ land in the Sierra Norte, in Oaxaca, Mexico. When I found them, our shy smiles made me remember that day and the experience of getting dressed in our traditional clothes, prepared carefully by my mum and grandma. A feeling of longing emerged, and I decided to stitch them together. I felt that was how the photo was meant to be, my sister and me together in our ancestral home. I embroidered the landscape and motives, as my grandma used to do. The act of embroidery reinforced my connection with my roots and my textiles. For me, it is to show the thread that unites us with our heritage. I used red and gold beads to represent our traditional necklaces, and the colours of the coral snake, a relevant animal in our mythology. These threads spread to the horizon as we do – my sister and I are migrant children, after all, part of a generation of Yalaltecos who were born away from our motherland. In this piece, we come back to our roots, and at the same time we fly away. Our souls will be forever interconnected, even in our migration. I started to produce hand-manipulated photo objects while developing the photo-documentary part of this project, with the intention to approach my Yalalteca identity from a more intimate space, to express my relationship with my culture and my family with visual freedom. Looking back at my family archive was the opportunity to intertwine my stories and experiences with my ancestors. I’m using this process as a personal ritual to heal generational trauma from colonisation politics and to talk about my own relationship with migration and my cosmovisión (worldview). As part of an Indigenous nation, I aim to create new narratives that can express the complexity of our realities.