October 12, 2024 - CDMX, Tlalpan, Mexico

BED is an exploration of all things sacred, secret, and unseen. 

BED is a story that can be read in any direction. 

BED is a quilt. 

In BED, feelings are given physical shape. 

Symptoms are expressed through mark making and abstraction. 

Love becomes a color.

And animals act as teachers in the kingdom of the sick. 

Divesting from template storytelling formats, Ramirez collapses the colloquial comic into many pieces. Panels scatter, and time expands forwards and backwards. The result is BED: a “comic” that can be read in any order, with infinite connections to be made. Inspired by the Milagros exvotos of Mexico and personal histories, Ramirez time travels through mark making. They craft through drawing their invocations for the future, always touching the past. This grounds the artist in the present moment, and alchemizes the experience of living with chronic illness, gender dysphoria, trauma, and most importantly, hope. Ramirez shows us inside the body through a myriad of haptic processes such as layering of tracing paper and soft graphite transfers. In this process, multiple iterations and directions of their personal mythology are explored. Dualities are ever present through this process, as printmaking reveals reverse images, and subsequently new meanings are constructed. Through repetitive motion and physical exertion, Ramirez spends more time than normal with each image. The somatic distillation of experiences are utilized in an effort to investigate the connection points between the Self and the World. Each drawing becomes a token of healing intention and focused awareness. Acting as a bridge between body and mind, BED’s drawings resonate as a sort of prayer.