Cosmic embrace

About the work

Cosmic embrace portrays the immersion of an Indigenous body in the waters of a river that mirrors the vastness of the starry sky, while turning towards the village warmed by the fires of a ritual. The painting approaches bathing and rite not as mere everyday actions, but as legitimate technologies of purification and rebalancing.

The gesture of open arms marks the connection between the individual, the territory and the cosmos, revealing a conception of integrative health in which the physical body tunes itself to the healing force of the community and the forest.

Between points of light and dense surfaces, one can imagine a world where the invisible still inhabits the earth.