Description
A river, a canoe, a grandmother, and a child.
This painting, inspired by the Warao culture — an Indigenous people from the south of Venezuela, known as “the people of the canoes” — depicts an intimate and sacred moment: the transmission of memory between generations.
Wisdom in these communities is not stored in books, but in the voices of the elders, in repeated stories, in inherited gestures.
Through the language of oil painting, I wanted to make visible the power of orality, the harmony with nature, and the dignity of those who, despite living in a fragile and threatened present, still hold the strength to preserve their stories.
This work is part of the series “Amazonia: Storie Indigene”, a pictorial project born to give voice and space to the culture, resilience, and spirituality of the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon — too often forgotten or silenced.