Stencil Art

The pieces I chose to use for my stencil art for my cover is a merging of two different visuals. One is a simple stencil of the moon, this is because I plan to implement indigenous latin american patterns inside the stencil. 

The moon stencil is to represent the duality that lives within me. The moon has always been an energy of clarity for me since I was a child. I always subconsciously noticed it and would look up at the night skies to admire its glow. Additionally because of the mythology i've learned through various Chican@ Studies classes I've learned that the narrative of the moon goddess, "Coyolxauhqui"is that which calls for those of us who try to revolutionize ourselves and those around us. The Mexica moon goddess is also female, and according to the Aztec birth years and four-directions my birth year falls under "calli", that of the east and "the feminine." To say that the moon has a gender is something arguable through different mythologies in history. Because of this I also find the moon astonishing in that we have personified it into a gender spectrum, something in the middle but also outside of that, without borders. The celestial figure has for years also given me hope throughout nights in which I had no one else but to look up at the sky and pray to the heavens. She has been the eternal light that hasn't abandoned me in my 20 years of life.