One hundred and twenty million years ago, when dinosaurs lived on Earth, a mutually beneficial interaction started between small winged creatures and flowering plants. This ancestral relationship, known as mutualism in biology, had a great impact on the evolution of life on Earth. Mutualisms are associations between species that are not related, in which both …
Mama Shibulata always told me to plant sacred quartz crystals for water to sprout, that you have to plant water for more trees to sprout, that you have to plant trees so that more birds will sprout, and so on—to go forth planting love in the world, though not just love, but a love for …
Wade Davis CreditsColaboración Ana Gonzalez – Ruven Afanador This book celebrates mythic origins. Each work of art serves as a prayer. Together they awaken the mystic threads of memory that reach back to the dawn of creation, and a cosmic moment when women and water as a single generative force brought life and fertility to …
When nature is perceived as a network, its vulnerability becomes apparent. Everything holds together. If one thread is pulled, the entire tapestry can unravel […]. Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World Tropicality is a geographical and cultural notion distant from European geographical and material conditions. Between the 16th and 19th …
Ana González y Ruvén Afanador They say the world is changing… but they are not. They are still there, just as they were hundreds or even thousands of years ago. They observe us, undisturbed, perhaps with curiosity, although their gaze is really more of empathy and compassion. And we are there, in awe of a …
Nature is a temple in which living pillarsSometimes give voice to confused words;Man passes there through forests of symbolsWhich look at him with understanding eyes.“Correspondences”, Charles Baudelaire Trees, flowers, bees, grass, rivers, mountains, clouds, stones… Nature is a great metaphor. A landscape is a projection of human feelings, a cultural construction that can be decoded …
Ana González belongs to a generation of enterprising artists who cultivate their trade within the narrow thresholds of aesthetics. Her career, nourished by a very important professional experience, is poised between architecture, photography, publishing and painting. As contemporary as she is conservative, González distances her art from provocation, denunciation and finger pointing by taking a …
There are only bloody fairy tales, because every fairytale is born from the depths of blood and fear.” Franz Kafka, 1952 In this series, Ana González evokes the stories told by a nine-year-old girl, the daughter of a family displaced by violence in Juradó, Colombia. The work highlights the tension between the innocence of childhood …
Mama Shibulata Zarabata In the beginning, nothing existed; there was no Earth, no Sun, no Moon. Everything was darkness, everything was water. Water was the mother creator. And when Mother Se created the world, she saw the need for a person of flesh and bone, someone to watch over the land. This is why Mother …
By Héctor Abad Faciolince I believe that the God of this lively, terrestrial artist is closer to the pantheistic God of the kindly heterodox Jew Baruch Spinoza than to the Olympian God of the Church fathers. González looks at our natural surroundings—animal, vegetable, mineral—and paints and models them with extraordinary gentleness, yet in the manner …