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…
Artwork Description: This piece speaks of the Amazon as a living territory: both as river and the tropical rainforest organism that surrounds it. The carved lines form a changing cartography that can be read as a fluvial system as well as veins on the skin of the earth that beat and transport what sustains life…
Artwork Description: The basin of the largest river on Earth is home to around 400 amazonian peoples. They have safeguarded the world’s biggest tropical rainforest for 10,000 years. To create arable soil and sustain their populations, they cut and carbonized areas of the jungle, creating the “terra preta” (black earth) that remains on the riverbanks…
Width: 81 Height: 41 Custom Medium: Digital hi resolution master file available from artist for giclee print reproduction Artwork year of completion: 2026 Price: 450 Currency: EUR : € EUR (Euro)
