Reframing An Old Taboo
by Vanessa Tiegs
The Medium Impacts Human Consciousness
Once learned, the deeply hidden origins of the taboo debunk all negative conditioning honed on girls around the world.
Served to the Vatican
As a testament to the power of the medium, the Vatican's website domain requested and served October Flight (Menstrala No. 42) on November 9th, 2002, only one month after its creation & live publication in October 2002.
The Medium Has Been Forgotten, Ignored & Silenced
Women battle various monthly fertility issues without adequate support available from the health, education or economic systems.
Silverfish Spirits
The first of 88 paintings in the original Menstrala Collection was created in September 2000, only 9 months after the great turn of the new millennium.
The collection was published under the pen name, Spiraling Moon: A Visual Journal of Pain-Things on one of the first blogs to exist on the web, LiveJournal.com.
By the end of the 1st quarter of the 21st Century, Menstrala became officially recognized by Academia since the collection's unveiling in 2000.
Cycle Logical Art
fully exposes society's attitude toward the natural monthly renewal process.
A Stage is Set
giving girls a valid means of expression to deflect socially conditioned shame. Girls could self-define their sexuality, female identity and emotional experiences to their reproductive cycle. While some teens publically contributed to the academic movement, most shared their expressions confidentially in personal fan mail.
Awareness of menstrual poverty rose with the increasingly obvious need for programs in middle schools to validate girls' first rite of passage & introduce mindful menstruation practices.
Revising Outdated Values
Menstrala support educational health programs, such as CeMCOR's Endowment Fund. The Centre for Menstrual Cycle & Ovulation Research at the University of British Columbia promotes new medical standards in women's health.
Memes
A few months after their unveiling in September 2000 on LiveJournal, a slew of memes ensued on Metafilter.com, thrusting Menstrala into the metaverse and heralding the birth of a worldwide women's art movement which wildly prospered throughout the 1st two decades of the new millennium.
International Film Appearances
Menstrala appeared in film productions:
Period: The End of Menstruation
Moon Inside You
A Flowering Tree
1st International Menstrala Competition, 2014
With Over 100 Entries
In 2014, the University of Mexico organized the 1st International Menstrala Competition and invited the artist to the jury as a judge.
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