It is a celebration of menstrual visibility in a time where app-based platforms like Clue, social media hype and even Pantone have jumped on the menstrual bandwagon. Long since are the days of those mysterious blue-fluid-saturated “menstrual hygiene” advertisements or movies suggesting hush-hush projections of shame and discomfort onto onlookers when a tampon flies into the big screen. Now, in growing numbers are women-fronted, alternative, fem-care companies repaving the foundational cracks on menstrual management towards more conscientious branding. Brands that are more transparent, environmentally focused, global-minded, cross-generational, and considering the vast spectrum of genders/identities. And yet menstruation, a phenomenon which happens to nearly half of the human population, is still perceived as taboo? Which astounds me. Moreover, it inspires me to keep on painting.   -Gloria Ceren