A giant 160 foot mural was
painted on this prominent building in Quito, Ecuador to honour the Indigenous
and Andean women who are defending their land from oil, mining and agricultural
laws that threaten food sovereignty and ancestral culture.
The project began with community
meetings in the Amazon and in a small Andean community where the artists, Mona
Caron and Raul Ayala met with women who were actively protecting their
land. Through interviews, storytelling, being
defended by these women: the water, land, air, and biodiversity as well as the
cultural and spiritual wholeness at stake in the defense of their sovereignty.”
( Mona Caron website)
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| Community mural meeting |
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| Base of the mural. |
The women are Zoila Castillo,
Gloria Ushiqua, Cristina Gualinga, Rosa Gualinga, Alicia Weya Cahuiya, Dominga
Antun, Bianca Chancosa, Carmen Lozano and Josefina Lema.
Each one was invited to come and paint their traditional face markings on their own portraits as is seen in the photo below.
You can watch a beautifulshort video of the mural here. And you can read more about this project on Mona Caron's website.
This is an exciting and inspiring story of what women can achieve when they work together.
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