This photograph is part of Koyoltzintli’s MEDA series, a visual anthology of the first woman who fell from the sky and how the first land was embedded in her body as a memory. Mythologies of the first nations had long held the artist’s creative attention. Against the landscape of Taos, New Mexico, Koyoltzintli captures the naked bodies of Kichwa women with their skin in close contact with rocks, grottos, dry hills, and ancient trees. These scenes, where darkness and light, heat and cool, tenderness and roughness, permanence and transience intersect, are the result of Koyoltzintli’s attempt to seek a “voluntary, collaborative, and nonbinary” relationship between humans and nature.