by Vani | Jan 5, 2021 | Interviews, Vist Projects
Before turning into wind, according to Sápara’s mythology, there was a man that prophesied the end of the culture of the Ecuadorian Amazon people. It was called Piatsaw, demiurge and the father of all shamans. The same name was chosen by Nicola Okin Frioli to...
by Vani | Dec 27, 2020 | Interviews, Vist Projects
When the peruvian musician Jaime Chirif Watanabe was a child, he went to visit his grandfather in the jungle. Alberto Chirif, one of the most recognized anthropologists of Perú, studied the Amazonic communities. So, Jaime, inspired by the “incessant rhythm of nature”,...
by Vani | Nov 4, 2020 | Vist Projects, Visualities
Leo Lanna grew up in Valenza, a municipality in the interior of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His family house was surrounded by forest and mantis, a particular species of insect. However Leo was not aware of it, because, he says, “I was not a child of nature”....
by Vani | Sep 6, 2020 | Vist Projects, Visualities
How does the fall of an ancient tree sound in the Amazon forest? Imagine the closed jungle. Hundreds of sounds of animals and insects, thousands of plants and trees intertwined. A chainsaw cuts a specimen about a hundred meters. The trunk is thicker than the men who...