jaguar

jaguar

The feline iconography of Chiribiquete is recurrent. It is evident that the figure of the jaguar evoked, for the earliest inhabitants of the continent, a force and a special meaning. Its ability to hunt on land, in the trees, and in the water established it as Lord...
Sacred Plants

Sacred Plants

The pictorial representations at Chiribiquete display a wide repertoire of sacred plants that were used as entheogens. This particular aspect constitutes a demonstration of the special and allegorical character of this place as a Center of Shamanic Thought, located in...
Counter

Counter

When I first encounter a problem, I tend to approach it very literally. As I go deeper, however, my certainties begin to fade. The word contra confused me. Of course I know it in everyday situations — “Es que usted lleva la contra en todo, ¿ah?” — but I could not...

El Arbol de Los Anhelos- Codex of Human Rigths

1- THE PROJECT El Árbol de los Anhelos – Codex of Human Rights is a long-term visual project originally conceived as a series of thirty large-scale works, each dedicated to one article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It has evolved into an open system...

Preamble

Artist Statement Humanity as Message The Preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Golden Record aboard the Voyager spacecraft share a single gesture: both ask what it means to be human when no one is watching. The Preamble begins with the...
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