Plant Ancestors, Coca Relatives, 2018. Digital drawings, variable dimensions.
Mother Plant: Coca. In gratitude to a companion and nurturer plant of an entire people for centuries. From archaeological findings of its use, botanical records, its representation in precolonial art, its indigenous names, its colonial history in the mines, its demonization by the church and its subsequent praise as scientific cure for everything, it's illegalization, to current chemical and botanical studies.
Coca in Quechua means "plant" or "tree". To enter the universe of the coca plant, I produce an extensive bio/graphÃa that narrates the life of the plant in our history. Woven in the survival of the traditions and beliefs of a people experienced in survival, and who have understood the coca leaf as a sacred being.
The history of the coca plant is a story of the entanglements between capitalism, colonialism and imperialism, but also an inherited record of wisdom and strength.
Coca in Quechua means "plant" or "tree". To enter the universe of the coca plant, I produce an extensive bio/graphÃa that narrates the life of the plant in our history. Woven in the survival of the traditions and beliefs of a people experienced in survival, and who have understood the coca leaf as a sacred being.
The history of the coca plant is a story of the entanglements between capitalism, colonialism and imperialism, but also an inherited record of wisdom and strength.