In the Wayuu indigenous community, settled in La Guajira, Colombia, it is a tradition that when a girl goes through her menarche, that is, her first menstruation, she is locked in a closed enclosure as part of a rite of passage in which she becomes a woman. During the Encierro, a process that involves a physical and emotional transformation that can take even months, the girl trains herself in the craft of weaving, interacts only with her mother, grandmother and aunts, feeds only on medicinal plants, communicates with the ancestors through dreams, but, above all, she grows. 

Starting from the ritual of the Encierro the project Locked Down Secrets pays tribute to the transformation that a girl undergoes during her lockdown. 

Through a series of four textile pieces produced during a mandatory quarantine, being conned is understood as an introspective process of female learning and growth that happens through weaving.