Centro Selva Arte y Ciencia has the pleasure to present the individual show of Michelina Risbeck. Michelina participated in an individual artist in residence at Centro Selva Arte y Ciencia, in Campoverde, Ucayali, Peru from the 31 of May to July 31, 2021. The art she developed during her stay involves a very personal experience through all her senses, with meditation practices, discovering her surroundings, getting involved with everyday practices, as part of a personal healing process, and the acknowledgment of her presence in this moment of time. The pieces she is presenting are Maestra Miriam: Enseñando El Arte Del [...]

"Forest Spirit" Painting is in itself a work that activates an apprehensible vision of a sensible object. It is to materialize a vision that is transformed into color on a new surface. Painting forces the painter to perfect his way of seeing the world shaped by color as a form in space. In doing the painter, he does not usually look for the term "investigate", because painting for painting or for art in general, also means investigating the clearing of color, analyzing, and modeling the forms. It is experiencing the appreciation of light until it takes on a life of [...]

Raos: Teachers Plants Clara Best Núñez The Amazonian people use plants as a means of defense, to treat diseases and epidemics and even for the development of people in community life. Jacques Tournon makes reference in his book The Plants, the Rao and their spirits the following: There are rao that are medicinal plants, others that would not be considered medicinal in other cultures: plants to change states of consciousness (psychotropic and hallucinogenic), toxic plants, for fishing and hunting. ” (p.47) The word rao comes from Shipibo  Konibo language to indicate when a plant is a teacher. The raos are not only healing plants but every plant has power. In that sense, there are two varieties of rao plants: the Jakon rao are remedies to cure and heal-jakoma rao that are [...]