{"id":4827,"date":"2026-05-16T14:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T14:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/?page_id=4827"},"modified":"2026-05-16T14:31:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T14:31:18","slug":"luis-daniel-herrera-romero-and-gabriela-farias-islas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/index.php\/luis-daniel-herrera-romero-and-gabriela-farias-islas\/","title":{"rendered":"Luis Daniel Herrera Romero and Gabriela Far\u00edas Islas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1\"><strong>Mending the Mirror: Auto-biographical Narratives through Photographic Embroidery<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>by Luis Daniel Herrera Romero and Gabriela Far\u00edas Islas<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mending the Mirror: Auto-biographical Narratives through Photographic Embroidery | Tell.Me 2026\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1eoTky5XkA8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3 wp-block-paragraph\">Is an educational artefact developed within the Experimental Narratives course at the Benem\u00e9rita Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico, led by Professors Luis Daniel Herrera Romero and Gabriela Far\u00edas Islas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4 wp-block-paragraph\">The project employs the symbolic self-portrait as a critical thinking device. Students transferred their own digital photographs onto paper and intervened them with embroidery thread, engaging in a literal and metaphorical act of mending: joining fragmented pieces of identity and reconstructing personal history through a single guiding rule \u2014 No stitch without intention. Within this framework, the stitch operates as a semiotic act. Every thread anchors meaning through four operations: Emphasis, to highlight; Erasure, to veil; Repair, to heal; and Signaling, to direct the viewer&#8217;s gaze. Students were further invited to integrate personal symbols with borrowed cultural references, transforming each portrait into a metaphorical argument about the self.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5 wp-block-paragraph\">The resulting works are diverse in voice and strategy. One student rewrote a narrative of melancholy by turning sadness into vibrant colour. Another engaged in intertextual dialogue with Klimt&#8217;s The Kiss, yet redirected the gaze in rejection. A third explored internal wounds through surgical stitching. Others displaced the face entirely, choosing instead to portray personal space, beloved objects, or aesthetic sensibilities \u2014 arguing that identity is distributed across things, memories, and surroundings.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6 wp-block-paragraph\">For many participants, embroidery reclaimed a childhood craft once imposed as obligation, transforming it into a chosen authorial stance through the new support of paper.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7 wp-block-paragraph\">Collectively, &#8220;Mending the Mirror&#8221; demonstrates that tactile intervention in digital media can serve as a vital tool for recovering collective memory and fostering social engagement. Identity, these students show us, is always built in relation \u2014 to others, to history, and to the material world around us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" data-id=\"4792\" src=\"https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/aa1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/aa1.png 1000w, https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/aa1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/aa1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/aa1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/aa1-400x400.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"724\" height=\"985\" data-id=\"4759\" src=\"https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_0105.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_0105.png 724w, https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_0105-221x300.png 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/index.php\/tell-me2026-exhibition\/\">&lt;&lt;&lt;Tell.Me Exhibition<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mending the Mirror: Auto-biographical Narratives through Photographic Embroidery by Luis Daniel Herrera Romero and Gabriela Far\u00edas Islas Is an educational artefact developed within the Experimental Narratives course at the Benem\u00e9rita Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico, led by Professors Luis Daniel Herrera Romero and Gabriela Far\u00edas Islas.&nbsp; The project employs the symbolic self-portrait as a&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/index.php\/luis-daniel-herrera-romero-and-gabriela-farias-islas\/\" class=\"gdlr-info-font excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4827","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4830,"href":"https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4827\/revisions\/4830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}