The state of “Maëracion” attained by Ayahuasqueros enables them to perceive a universe imbued with color and populated by spirits. It was this magical universe that Peruvian painter Pablo César Amaringo visited, night after night for years, when he was a Shaman. Today, he no longer drinks Ayahuasca, but paints visions of his journeys with the liana. His work is exhibited in Japan and the United States, where he has published a book entitled “Ayahuasca Visions” in collaboration with ethnologist Luis Eduardo Luna. In 1990, he received the UN’s Global 500 award for his artistic contribution to the preservation of indigenous traditions and cultures worldwide. He lives in Pucallpa, Peru, in the Amazon painting school he created for the children of his neighborhood.
[…]
For more images, click here.
Text & images © Hervé Merliac/Kaleidos-images – All rights reserved
Painting by Pablo César Amaringo
Pucallpa, Perou. Painting by Pablo C. Amaringo. Visions of Ayahuasca: “La Sublimidad del Sumiruma”.
Tuk-Tuk
Painting by Pablo César Amaringo
Painting by Pablo César Amaringo
Œuvre de Pablo César Amaringo
Pucallpa, Pérou. (Peinture de:) Pablo César Amaringo. Vision de l’Ayahuasca: “Las Tingunas”.
Pablo César Amaringo
Pucallpa, Pérou. The painter of the series “Visions of Ayahuasca”, Pablo César Amaringo.
Pablo César Amaringo
Pucallpa, Pérou. Le peintre des visions de l’Ayahuasca, Pablo César Amaringo avec un tableau inspiré de ses visions d’Ayahuasca.
Painting by Pablo César Amaringo
Painting by Pablo César Amaringo
Pucallpa, Perou. Painting by Pablo C. Amaringo. Visions of Ayahuasca: “La Sublimidad del Sumiruma”.
Painting by Pablo César Amaringo
Painting by Pablo César Amaringo
Curandera
Pucallpa, Peru. A curandera (healer) of the Indian community Shipibo, smoking a mapacho (local tobacco cigarette).
Water transportation
Pucallpa, Peru. Running water is a luxury that the inhabitants of the peripheral districts ignore. Two children carrying buckets of water.
Friends
Tarapoto, Peru. A man and a woman chat with a teenager who carries fruit on a wheelbarrow.
Fruit transportation
Tarapoto, Peru. A man and a woman chat with a teenager who carries fruit on a wheelbarrow.
Sorting the fish
San Francisco, Pucallpa region, Peru. Men and children participate in the sorting of fish, returning from a day of fishing on the river.
