GUATEMALA

Mayan women, who from dawn to dusk grind corn, feed the fire, and prepare tortillas on clay comales, are the invisible protagonists of a millennia-old history. Tortear – the repeated gesture of passing wet hands over the heated stone to prevent the corn from sticking – often erases every fingerprint, every trace of individual identity. And yet, that daily silence preserves the collective memory of a people, their cultural survival and the unbreakable bond between humans, nature, and the traditional Mayan cosmos.