For Latinas, there is strata within; it breaks us into who we are supposed to be, allowed to be, or expected to become. My entire life, I've understood myself as image unfulfilled. I could be the overly prude and Catholic archetype, the hyper-sexualized exotic, the violent other, the house wife, the baby-maker, the bruja, the maid - it goes on and on. We all work endlessly to deny these stereotypes, but what happens when we embrace them: when we decide who we want to be? I find that I am constantly re-configuring the politics of my own body and the complexities of my identity. Through found-object assemblage, I can transform these personas into ephemera of significance. I dissect and reassemble them into something holy and honorable. My strata is personal, political and poetic