Good afternoon, my name is Equinetcia Martínez Zavaleta, my Shipibo name is
Kaisy, I came representing my mother who is Dely Zavaleta Bernabi.
I am from the Shipibo community of Masisea Vista Alegre and I live in the community of Cantagallo.
(Shipibo dialect).
I am going to explain what our painting is about, what my mom and dad created.
In a community there was a man who smoked mapacho, but since there was no
ayahuasca in the community, he decided to make a wish to become an ayahuasca man.
So, he goes to the mountains and begins to make his diet there in the depths of the
forest, where he consumes his mapacho and after a while he was disappeared; and since
he was missing, his family starts looking for him.
After a month they find him, he had the ayahuasca tree and leaves growing on
his head; his head was full of ayahuasca and he kept smoking his ayahuasca.
He went to the mountain, because there was no ayahuasca in the community, so he
decided to be an ayahuasca.
Ayahuasca is also a place where people consume to see visions, to heal.
Thank you very much.