The embroidering of tortillas

I made a video of the process of embroidering «Blue Tortillas are the Same Colour as the Sea Here». With the embroidery sessions, we have reflected on how embroidery is a practice that is not taught to my generation anymore because our mothers were forced to do so, and, in a way, rebelled, by not passing that particular knowledge down. Antonia argues that by teaching and learning it amongst each other, collectively, we are reappropriating the practice and rebelling with it, too. The audio of the video is a voice note my mother sent my sister and I, where she talks about how, even though we are all in different parts of the world, she knows we are transforming our little unit into something else. Something new. She says «it feels like we are leaving a dress behind, or something else that doesn’t work for us anymore».