In January 2024, I collaborated with earthbased.media to create a micro short film teaser for Once There Was and Once There Was Not—an original choreopoem inspired by the wild woman archetype, as explored in Clarissa Pinkola Estés' seminal work Women Who Run With the Wolves. Rooted in Jungian analysis and woven from intercultural myths, folk tales, and fairy stories, the piece adapts these narratives into characters and settings that reflect the Mexican-American experience. As with their original tellings, the stories resonate universally.

If a story is seed, then we are its soil.

We are its soil: permeable. complex.

Too complex, some would say.

For this world.

For all times.

And we are tired.