The incomparable privilege of the earthling siblinghood or 'Respect your mother, she's my mother too'

By Iván Hoyos Freyre

Piece description from the artist

The incomparable privilege of the earthling siblinghood or 'Respect your mother, she is my mother too' – ‘Who earthling if not the flower that was born on the sidewalk, challenging the asphalt to stand immense although small, or the clouds that cover the traffic, or the hills that contemplate the sea, the birds, the insects, the dogs and the plants . The cacti. The water that runs although bottled, which in its path wets to the driest. Blessed the earthlings.’

Part of my "Telúrico" series – (Telluric) Of or relating to the earth.

What is housed in a rock? Through the cutting of a stone it is possible to look at a story as old as the planet. The stones, witnesses of time, of life itself, recount in their materiality, in the cracks, colors, mineral formations, shapes and textures, a synthesis of this place we inhabit and to which we belong.

The native peoples, throughout history and the globe, have maintained a search for earthly unity, for understanding this place and those who inhabit it, as part of the same system. This photographic series is situated in the mineral testimony as a metaphor for ancestral values.

Rocks, like the ancestral wisdom of indigenous peoples, are the result of a very long history, and their existence in the bustle of the present is essentially resistance.