Artwork Description: Acigami is one of the lakes in the Tierra del Fuego island.12,000 years ago, glaciers covered this entire region. In that time, the first peoples arrived on foot through paths bordering these ancient lakes before the rise in temperature of the Holocene melted a big part of the ice and formed these bodies…
Artwork Description: Zizuma is the U’wa people’s name for the Sierra Nevada del Cocuy in Colombia. The paths that ascend to its snow-capped summits cross through valleys of frailejones and meet endless streams flowing down from glaciers that sculpt the mountain as they melt. The rivers form ponds that reflect the green hues of the…
Artwork Description: In this piece we can contemplate a moment of calmness facing Barcelona’s sea. The inspiration for this work is the soft light of the early morning hours in the winter, when light envelops everything and makes the sky and the ocean one. I worked with layers of colors and textures using acrylic, collage,…
Artwork Description: For this piece, I was inspired in the palmas de cera of the Cocora Valley in Quindío, Colombia. This palms are the tallest in the world. They can reach up to 60 meters in height and live up to 200 years. They are unique palms because they grow at the highest altitudes in…
Artwork Description: The Puracé is one of the most active volcanoes in Colombia. It is located in the volcanic arc of the Northern Andes. The Kokonuko people tell that in the beginning of time, the Puracé volcano and the Sotará snowcapped mountain communicated through fireballs to maintain their balance. There came a moment when the…
Artwork Description: Surrounded by forests and mountains in the Patagonian Andes, the immense Perito Moreno glacier rises over the Lago Argentino as an imposing ice wall of blue, grey and white tones. It seems as though the ice was sleeping in immensity, keeping millenary memories, until all of a sudden it awakens and lets us…
Artwork Description: This piece is inspired by lake Titicaca in Bolivia and Perú. According to the stories of the Aymara people, lake Titicaca was a dry and flat terrain in remote times. There lived Pura Kalsuna, a small-sized person. He lived at the top of a mountain which helped him survive the Great Andean Flood…
Artwork Description: This piece is inspired by the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, a mountain range that rises to more than five thousand meters above the Caribbean sea in Colombia. The iku or arhuaco people is one of the five nations who live there. Their creator deity is Kaku Serankua who, as the story goes,…
Additional Artwork Images: Artwork Description: I started this piece painting flowers with great freedom and enjoying new and joyful colors. I saw that after the flowers, leaves and even fruits started coming up in the composition. I thought of the Amazon rainforest and that’s why the work is titled “Chagra”: the space where the peoples…
Additional Artwork Images: Artwork Description: This work depicts the “Devil’s Pulpit”, a peak in the Sierra Nevada del Cocuy mountain range in Colombia. Summits like this one which are more than 5600 meters tall are sacred for the U’wa people because they are the dominion of immortal beings in their mythology. The U’wa narrate their…
