"Being a self taught artist, and a social entrepreneur I found in my motherhood journey, the inspiration to contribute to the higher cause of mother's well being. I created an art book of birthing stories titled "Birth As You Please".

21 birth stories, along with their pregnancy portraits and poems; an endeavor that filled my days with challenge, colors, purpose and joy. What I am very pleased about is that this book has a collective voice: it unites many voices together, with a diversity of cultural, gender, and age backgrounds.Birth giving is omnipresent, transversal and universal. It is how we all begin.

“Birth As You Please” is a dream coming true - a seed that was planted many years ago. I was in my early 20’s when I lived in Mexico City after completing my undergraduate studies in Economics in Canada. Living in such a colorful city, I had no option but to paint my little apartment vivid red and yellow, experimenting with coloring wine bottles and kitchen chairs. That was my beginning as a self-taught painter in the city where Frida Kahlo was born, lived, and created her art.

In my mid 20’s I had moved to Madrid and while working and studying, I was painting my friends’ and family’s portraits. I still have the portrait of my dear grandfather. I remember him posing for me on his home balcony. I went to a photography exhibition in a hidden gallery of Madrid and a tiny photograph drew my attention: a naked pregnant woman in black and white. I was moved to tears and I did not yet know why.

Around the same period it was the first time I’d ever visualized a pregnant body. It came as a revelation: the image of a woman pregnant to mother earth. We were looking for a logo for our community project that we later called Manageo, or Mother Earth. My dear friend Monica Prom designed it. That was one more motherhood seed planted, that now looking back it all feels like a part of destiny. Some years later I painted “Prophecy”. I posed in front of the mirror and imagined that my body was pregnant. This little painting is my humble beginning in birth art, more than ten years ago.

I sense the urgency of adding ideas and research to the dialogue around how birth can be more humane and how women, birthing people, all around the world, in many different cultures can inspire each other to rediscover their life giving capabilities."