In the rise of the scientific revolution, magical and religious thinking that marked eras was abandoned to make way for a mechanistic paradigm of the Universe. It was never again an animated world, where forces of nature coexisted. Science became the pursuit of verifying facts through the scientific method.
This artistic exhibit recognizes and honors these knowledges, beliefs, and technologies that survived hidden in indigenous communities, after converting to Christianity and obeying the moral rules of the Western world.
On these leaves printed using solar light, we can recognize female images, as feminine archetypes caring for the plant world. Female figures have been associated with caring for nature since ancient cultures.
Some of these female figures are adorned with the so-called power plants. These plants have been used in different parts of the world for ritual use; brews made from these plants have given the Shaman and their community the power to know which path their people should take and where to find medicines, as well as how to guide the care of nature and the environment.
The installation of the work also represents the anthropological-Western view of this knowledge, seeking to pigeonhole it, classify it, but probably not managing to experience it or enter its deep wisdom.
Recently, science has turned its gaze to psychedelic plants, coinciding that their chemistry can help humans overcome depressive states more effectively than with traditional antidepressants, as long as it is mediated by psychological-ritual companionship.
Let us hope that this new look at nature allows it to be put in the place it deserves, with humans not being the center, but rather coexisting with all that surrounds them.
Let us allow the women of the earth to continue dreaming the medicine of their peoples.
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