Iconographic Shift is a two-part publication that explores embodied knowledge as both archive and disruption, preserving Indigenous weaving practices while reshaping their iconographic language to address contemporary questions of identity and representation. (Publication both in Spanish and English)

The research focuses on ceñidores, an Indigenous textile practice from Mexico in which women weave belts embedded with symbols that narrate their life stories. While each community has distinct iconography, these textiles collectively encode, kinship, protection, and social belonging. Worn daily, they function as living archives, activated through the body, material, use, and transmission rather than static documentation.

Positioning itself as a counter-archive, the project challenges conventional archival methods centered on text and images. Instead, he proposes workshop-based methodologies where learning, making, and bodily engagement function as archival acts. It explores glitching as a strategy of resistance. By digitally and materially destabilizing the traditional symbols, the project proposes ways to re-signify them, opening space for intersectional identities to be represented while preserving their cultural essence. Drawing from the decolonial, queer, an intersectional frameworks the methodology developed looks not to create language, but rather to distort the existing one. By shaping language, we can open a path to new definitions. Employing bend and breaks as metaphors for difference, using the glitch as a exoskeleton for progress.