Angela Saavedra

My process begins with collecting pigments and organic materials during my travels. Each element carries the memory of a landscape, fragments of earth, minerals, fibers and powders become both medium and metaphor. Through their transformation, I reflect on how identity is continuously reconstructed as we move across places and how matter becomes a vessel for memory and belonging.

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“El Cuenco de la Abundancia” is built from earth-based pigments and materials extracted directly from the soil of Boyacá, Colombia, a region shaped by ancestral mythologies, oral traditions, and a collective memory rooted in the land.

Beneath the final layers of pigment, fragments of handwritten texts, stories, legends and cultural traces, were inscribed and then partially erased, echoing the way heritage often slips into silence.

The work functions as a vessel of remembrance: not tied to a single geography  but to the deeper bond with Mother Earth. It evokes the idea of abundance not as material wealth, but as the enduring richness of ancestral knowledge, community memory  and the stories that ground our sense of belonging to the natural world.”

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The bowl is reduced to a contour, a structural premise. A site of accumulation and disappearance. Its function is not utilitarian but conceptual: to hold the residue of time, to outline a field where origin becomes visible.