The Guajira Cósmica series emanates from the artist’s experience of spending a few consecutive nights at El Cabo de la Vela, a desert in the Northern coast of Colombia where the Wayuu indigenas still inhabit.

Each piece is a representation of the sacred geometry of the cosmos, that finds its artistic expression through the ancestral technique known as “Gualdrapa Tapestry” and developed by the Wayuu indigenous community with Mrs. Cecila Acosta as the community leader. The Wayuu have inhabited this peninsular area for centuries. This community governed by a matriarchal hierarchy lives surrounded by beautiful desert landscapes and starry nights next to the blue sea. For them, this form of weaving is symbolic of capturing the cosmos y portray it with an apparent simplicity through a complex weave.

The geometric abstraction present in this series represent the formal patterns that are repeated in nature. The sacred geometry is related with what is masculine and what is feminine, with what is concrete and what is logic, with the spacial and the ethereal.

In this body of work you can see the western and the Wayuu worldview come together, captured and interpreted by indigenous hands. Each piece is a mixture of Wayuu art, mystic, ancestral wisdom and sacred geometry.

Dimensions: 13”x13”