Ecuadorian Jungle, Macas, Ecuador 2019
Toquilla House Public Space Intervention / Public park bench, River stones, Stencil, White paint / Video mapping
Variable Dimensions
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Toquilla House Public Space Intervention / Public park bench, River stones, Stencil, White paint / Video mapping
Variable Dimensions
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A bench located in the center of the city of Macas (EC) was intervened, in an area with Wi-Fi access where many people usually sit to chat and write. I thought it would be ironic to sit on words to write more words, and the action of observing people's reactions, who omit their own native language, was also curious. The Shuar terms used are related to the fall of water and insist on the phenomenon of rain, specifically in the hydrological cycle of water that constructs the dense and humid landscape of this locality.
With the purpose of transferring the spirit of the Upano River to the city center, painted stones were extracted and placed as a trace or demarcation to the exhibition in the room, where a rainfall is projected onto tobacco and holy wood as symbols of the presence of indigenous initiation rituals and medicinal plants from the Amazon region; the concern behind this process is whether we will come to understand the alphabet of water, and if so, what would the rain tell us or whisper to us?.
