It’s a series of paintings that emerge after two years living in the upper region of the Ecuadorian Amazon. During this period my research focused on Amazonian cosmologies, relational ontology and walks through the forest. To visualize my ideas I use painting in dialogue with object oriented ontology, co-creating the works with traditional and non traditional materials in the history of painting. Through this gesture I aim to expand the contemporary painting discourse collaborating with the agency of the materials, which decentralize the painting practice by placing it in the southern region of the American continent. On the surfaces we can find obsidian rocks, achiote pigment, hand made cabuya paper, huairuro protector seeds in conversation with oil paint and resin. I trust the agency that the materiality of these non-human agents inserts in the creative process and in the final results of the works. Each one of them invite us to think in the temporality for their formation, the diverse processes, industrial and organic that have to take place for their emergence and the tensions they generate on the painted surface. The represented beings through the act of painting are mainly birds and plants that act as the interface between the natural world and myth.
