Abaucán, lands and people

A photographic essay

Volcanes que fraguaron con su poder el paisaje.

Lava, agua, tierra y tiempo

crearon al hombre y a la mujer a su imagen y semejanza.

Abaucan.

The sonda wind forged the culture,

subtle as dune, rich in its mixture.

The mountain shaped the character, people who settled in the location.

Environment that people transform,

barely leaving a mark in the vastness of silence.

Rivers that offer life, generation after generation,

forever and ever

to Mother Earth, the Pachamama of these lands, Gea in other places and other eras

tracing signs that the stream of time sketches

and again…

and again…

until sculpting a story in the landscape

which will one day know how to tell,

when women and men inhabited a land

that perhaps no name will already have.

Only light will remain

and the memory of our lives,

darkness.

With immense gratitude and love to the people of Territorio Abaucán who allow me to enter their privacy and little by little reveal their knowledge.