Description
With “Wae”, a word that in the Waorani language means sister, the artist closes a two-year journey made up of sixteen large canvases and eight smaller ones.
A path of immersion into the Amazon and the stories of the women who inhabit, defend, and protect it.
Two female figures embrace at the center of the composition. Their bodies merge with the deep colors of the forest: greens, copper, earth, and light. It is a gesture of care and alliance, a silent prayer that speaks of resistance and unity. The intertwined hands, the joined faces, and the flowing lines of their hair evoke the roots of trees, the vital sap of the land that nourishes and connects them.
In Waorani cosmology, the forest is a living being: it is not inhabited, one belongs to it. Everything is relationship: trees, animals, spirits, people
Sisterhood, in this context, is not merely a bond of blood but a sacred link of reciprocity, a force that holds the community together and ensures the continuity of life.
Waorani women are the guardians of this balance: they fight for the forest as they would for a sister, standing against the systems of exploitation that threaten its survival.
“Wae” is born from this vision. It is an invitation to unite rather than divide, to recognize that the struggle for the Earth and the search for genuine human connection share the same root.
Those who look at or choose this work enter a story about resistance, love, and belonging.
A painting that closes a cycle but leaves a door open to dialogue among women, among cultures, between humankind and nature.
