‘Mujeres de luz’,  is a project collaborating with Tehuana women, protagonists in the economy and culture of Zapotec society in southern Mexico, where the female presence is always visible. I seek to discover the features that characterize these women in other Mexican societies. Their high degree of autonomy over the past century and a half— coupled with the knowledge that Tehuanas are self-sufficient, confident women in a country like Mexico, which is dominated by a patriarchal system—drew me toward getting to know and portraying them.