to make both distinction and connection between the women and animal. The third theme of the Trilogy, "Silent Natures" resembles still life's Garduño has taken. The title "Silent Natures" in Spanish is natura muerta which means dead nature, but Silent Natures better serves its purpose for relaying undead scenes. According to writer Sylvia Wolf, Flor Garduño has always been very conscious of her own heritage and, therefore, has wanted to offer an homage to the peoples of the Americas, especially the most ancestral and isolated from Western civilization. Concepción Bados-Ciria describes Garduño's work as emphasizing lyrical aspects of the Indians of Mesoamerica. Bados-Ciria states that the use of nudity in Garduño's work does not abandon the interior and the consciousness, but it rather praises the multiple and various bodies to challenge the dominant binary opposition body/spirit and, at the same time, she remaps a material which is cultural, historical, anthropological, sexual and racial. Bados-Ciria also mentions that Garduño's work focuses on Mexican themes, such as her photo series, "Testigos del tiempo" which has 72 photos in Latin American countries in a four-year period. The countries she traveled to during this period include Guatemala, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Mexico. While she visited, she stayed in homes of her subjects, sharing her photographs with them and sharing her experience. References Further reading External links UNAM interview with Garduño Artnet profile 20th-century women photographers 21st-century women photographers Mexican women photographers 1957 births Living people 20th-century Mexican photographers 21st-century photographers 20th-century Mexican women artists 21st-century Mexican women artists Artists from Mexico City