The cure
Quinaya Qumir / Colombia
The rituals of indigenous body painting specify aesthetic-ritual intentions through the expressive lines that draw and materialize in the body the organization of the worldview, sensitivity and own values, closely related to the community; Likewise, these rituals reproduce forms of use of pigment-producing substances, substances that are both ritual and medicinal. Whoever understood these shapes on the skin as plain decoration does not see the overlapping intention of the healing act.
The paint covers the skin and is the cure.
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