_{An intimate work, tracing, painting and sewing my personal story on paper. I imagine life as an infinite path, but ephemeral at the same time.
Living with the indigenous Puruwas in the highlands of Ecuador, I learned how they shaped their history, their environment and their space: through the mountains in the landscape. The tayta (father) Chimborazo as in love with the beautiful Tungurahua volcano, and many symbolic anthropomorphic representations. There was a world behind the mountain, quite unknown, where fantasy came to shape a range of possibilities.
Thus, the mountains represent a cultural narrative thread, but are also essential for the location of the person in the environment. Mountains become essential landmarks in the physical, spiritual, symbolic, and physical world.}

_{In my drawings, a type of symbolic and guiding mountain also appears, a solid black form. It's about paths, lines and strokes, orientation points. My background as an anthropologist makes me like to intertwine artistic practice with a more anchored, anthropological theory. In this project I am inspired by the theories of anthropologist Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen. His research on "the line" in all facets of human life allows a very enriching vision.}

 

_{2020 onwards, mixed technique on paper}