Our Way

Nature Art Friends

El Camino está para construirlo en Etapas, con sus Logros, Parones, Derrumbamientos y ReConstrucciones.

En Nuestro Andar de muchos Encuentros y Desencuentros, intentando un Nuevo Lenguaje Visual, lo que más nos Transformó, fue nuestro encuentro con la comunidad mbyá-guaraní de Tekoa Tamanduá en Misiones.

De ese Ensayo entendimos, profundizamos más y nos animó a Buscar más. Nuestro entender anterior se había hecho Superficial. La ciencia, la investigación, dar nombres en latín, clasificar, archivar, catalogar, representar.

Brotaron nuestras Intenciones en entender a través de nuestro arte, la Humanidad en Conexión con la Naturaleza.

Aumentó nuestro Interés en Captar y Transmitir lo que Nos rodea y Representarlo en Arte. G&F se fortaleció en Su Proyecto, en la búsqueda de un Entendimiento de la Vida y de nuestras profundas Raíces con Ella.

We became Jachy Tata Javya, Wandering Star, a star with a clear Course.

We orbit around Our Own Search, Nature Art Humanity.

As a Living and Boiling Planet, we embarked on a route, The Route.

We went back to the Meeting with Communities, People in Communion with Life.

Wandering like stars we come to a Fertile Ground.

The Wandering Star that we are, posed in Abaucán Territory. As in Misiones, Enormous Wealth, Ancestral Knowledge, Understanding of Life are revealed to us.

The Star Sprung!

Encouraged, we travel through valleys and ravines, dunes and mountain ranges to meet the people who Spring Wisdom in Communion with Nature.

Warping at Doña Martina's loom

“On Monday morning I am going to weave the loom to knit a poncho”, Dona Martina invited us “come and see”.

And we went.

Weaving a Creole loom is an easy task if you know the know-how, those subtle details that do not appear in the tutorials. You have to be very careful not to cross the threads and keep them in the same tension for a little more than a kilometer and a half that Dona Martina will walk, back and forth, along the five meters that the loom measures

It is like a mantra in which you cannot lose concentration, back and forth. In ancient times weaving had a Magical connotation. While a blanket, a puyo or a poncho or a shawl was being made, the face of the future owner was visualized, wishing him good fortune.

Round-trip the ball is finished and another is tied. Over fifteen hundred meters of sheep's wool yarn, previously cleaned carded and hand-spun for hours of fiber twisting. Always careful not to cross the threads.Pinch the ball tightly so that it does not escape from the hands, rubbing the thread between the fingers, maintaining the tension, without losing attention, back and forth.So from the first knot to the final knot.The Sun tightens, the warp is ready, it is mate time.

“Early in the morning, with the cool I will put the smooth ones. I wait for you"Round trip..

TO BE CONTINUED

A thousand green hues

Featuring Mirta Reales and Lucía Lopez

This is the title of a music contest of the Government of Catamarca.

The slogan, to interpret an own version of Landscape of Catamarca by Rodolfo Polo Gimenez and record it with the original lyrics registered in sadaic ... which, as you will hear, is "a little town there, another beyond."

“You have to participate! ”, It was decided a few days before the delivery deadline. Spontaneous acts are the best.

Mirta and Lucia, guitar teacher and music teacher, carry the Catamarca melodies, the rhythm of a horse through the hills, the wind whistling on the stones, the water of the streams as, voice mirrors, in the depth of their souls,

Early on Sunday we would prepare the equipment: a small video-camera, a light tripod, two tergopol plates and a hair tie ... it's always a lot of air here and Lucia has long hair, maybe she can help you ...

The setting, we all agreed, the ditch of the Abaucán River, in the shadow of a White Algarrobo where the voices of Mirta and Lucía, the guitar and the box would vibrate under its Magic shadow. The location, John's farm.

We filmed under the shade of the white carob tree abundant with flowers where wasps were sucking.

Voices and Nature in Communion.

We add another shade of green, the green of the desert.

We did the editing at home, sharing roast chicken, lettuce and radishes from our garden and John's wine.

Thank you Mirta and Lucía, for giving us the opportunity to share an Enriching and Unique Sunday, an opportunity to Learn.

Now let's cross our fingers so that the jury can see the sincere roots of this version of Paisajes de Catamarca.