A story combining the polaroids as portraits and images that represent symbols of what women talked on their interviews about identity and their names, colonization, etc. Story with the support of PWB as part of the RSG. Digital images intervened with embroidery to tide the narrative with the polaroids. Not all of the digitals have embroidery. Combine the polaroids on the llanchama with text, some digital embroidered, and polaroids on top of digitals. the photographer embroiders some of the digital photos as a way to connect the women’s narrative together. Through symbololism the story is connected in a way to show the interconnection between Sapara women and the land while exploring how dreams reframe their ancestral knowledge and the role it plays in the construction of their identities. The polaroid photographs were embroidered by sapara women during a workshop where together they reflected on how colonization negatively influenced the Sapara cultural identity when they were force to change their Sapara names to western names. Today, for Sapara women, keeping their birth name is an act of resistance. In this project, embroidery allows the women to reweave new narratives based on individual and collective memories that infuse a sense of liberation. The final embroidered polaroid portraits represent a mending ritual that embraces the Sapara ancestral roots and reflects on Sapara women’s experiences and dreams from a place of resilience and autonomy. Each stitch is seen as a metaphor that unties the norms of oppression.