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Womanhood Research Project

This research-driven project explores the complexities of womanhood through an interdisciplinary approach, combining interviews, crowdsourced narratives, and academic readings. By weaving together personal accounts and cultural analysis, the project examines how societal expectations, upbringing, and identity shape the lived experience of being raised as a woman. The culmination of this extensive research is a series of print-based works that reflect on themes of resilience, autonomy, and collective memory. Each piece serves as both a visual and textual response to the nuanced realities of gendered experiences, inviting reflection and dialogue on the evolving definitions of womanhood.

Our Everyday Lives

A visual exploration of womanhood through layered images, this book weaves together sourced images from historical women’s movements with personal photographs of the women in my life. Through collage, it reflects on the shared experiences of being a woman. Each composition is a dialogue between past and present, personal and collective; an invitation to see yourself and the women around you in the fragments that shape our stories.

What Does Being a Woman
Mean to You?

This book is a compilation of interviews and conversations with different women about their lives and what being a woman means to them.

Intertwined with found conversations from the internet, I aimed to paint a picture about how we understand womanhood and how we share those thoughts with eachother.

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Everything In Between

Remembering that womanhood is an ongoing and ever evolving experience, this collection is only a myriad of some of the stories, challenges, dreams, and experiences told through the words of multiple women.

In these pages are glimpses of our world. Celebrating triumphs, grieving hardships, and acknowledging our differences. The collective identity of womanhood exists in this variety and in how we choose to share it with eachother.

Here’s to the story of womanhood, our existence in the public eye and everything that goes on behind it.

Here’s to everything in between.

Do You Remember?

You were a girl once too: a tale of our womanhood.

At my ripe age of 23 years old I spend an embarrassingly outrageous amount of time thinking about the fact that I am a woman. Contemplating what is expected of me as such, and deciding when and how to act: either in accordance with or in defiance of these expectations. As I grow older, I resent myself for how much I let them guide me while I was still maleable. Now, I try to reconstruct and correct those habits.

The final book of this project is a compilation of all the research I collected, strung together with some writing of my own. Images are all sourced from a personal family archive and handmade illustrations.

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Mariana Colmenares

Mariana
Colmenares