1 00:00:16,820 --> 00:00:23,600 Hello, my name is Doris Gómez Agustín, I am from the community of San Francisco de 2 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:27,600 Yarinacocha, Ucayali, Pucallpa. 3 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:38,800 This afternoon I come before you to explain what my artwork is about, which is kené 4 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:48,020 that our grandmothers taught us and we learned from them, from their knowledge, 5 00:00:48,340 --> 00:01:01,380 and the paintings that I made which are three versions of how 6 00:01:01,660 --> 00:01:07,260 I learned to make my own kené. 7 00:01:07,980 --> 00:01:17,820 First of all, in the old days our mothers, our grandmothers, gave us our piece of 8 00:01:18,180 --> 00:01:28,260 tocuyo or cañamazo and told us take it, draw your own inspiration, your kené, 9 00:01:28,500 --> 00:01:39,440 it's fine if it's it's ugly, you have to learn, so that later on you can improve 10 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:42,200 yourself. And what did we do? 11 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:49,440 We took what they gave us, a piece of tocuyo or cañamazo, some thread and needle 12 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:53,760 and we began to work, but it came out a little ugly. 13 00:01:53,760 --> 00:02:04,780 But later on we perfected it, perfected until the time came when the kené came out 14 00:02:05,020 --> 00:02:19,820 pretty, which we wore to go to school and in that sense our grandmothers taught us 15 00:02:20,060 --> 00:02:26,300 how to make our own kené, our own embroidery. 16 00:02:26,580 --> 00:02:36,060 The other is through ayahuasca, through ayahuasca, how? 17 00:02:36,300 --> 00:02:51,260 Because there were unayamu masters who had ayahuasca sessions and when the women were 18 00:02:51,500 --> 00:03:05,420 sitting in the ayahuasca ceremony a mother of the kené came and asked the master, I 19 00:03:05,660 --> 00:03:13,820 want to give my knowledge to this woman and when the master sang in the ceremony he 20 00:03:14,140 --> 00:03:21,260 said: the mother of knowledge of the kené says she wants to give that knowledge to 21 00:03:21,500 --> 00:03:27,580 you, because it was special that it gave that person that knowledge. 22 00:03:27,900 --> 00:03:36,180 And an example is that of my mother-in-law, Olga, because they gave her that 23 00:03:36,500 --> 00:03:44,340 knowledge because before she did not have that knowledge of how to get the kené. 24 00:03:44,660 --> 00:03:55,460 One day she went to an ayahuasca ceremony, they gave her a crown of wisdom and the 25 00:03:55,740 --> 00:04:00,980 master told her: mother nature wants to give you that crown of wisdom so that you 26 00:04:01,180 --> 00:04:09,300 learn to externalize the kené and mother wisdom put the crown on 27 00:04:09,500 --> 00:04:12,740 her and from there she started. 28 00:04:13,820 --> 00:04:26,500 The master told her that she can never hit her head and to protect her head from the 29 00:04:28,180 --> 00:04:32,260 sun heat, to be carful to not drop the crow, she had to be very careful with her 30 00:04:32,700 --> 00:04:38,300 head because she was giving a very important knowledge that was the kené and 31 00:04:38,700 --> 00:04:53,500 that is how my mother-in-law began to make a lot of kené, she spend a lot of time in 32 00:04:54,180 --> 00:04:55,713 the kené ______(SHIPIBO 33 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 DIALECT),________,_______ many 34 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 kinds of kené, that is 35 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 the second. 36 00:04:55,700 --> 00:05:01,740 The other is through piri piri, that’s what we call it, it is a 37 00:05:05,260 --> 00:05:09,700 small plant, but it has small balls. 38 00:05:09,980 --> 00:05:19,780 If we didn't know how to make kené, our grandmothers put drops in our eyes and when 39 00:05:20,020 --> 00:05:27,220 we slept many kinds of visions of kené would come, and we captured those visions 40 00:05:27,740 --> 00:05:39,860 in the daytime and the kené would come to our minds and we would practice, 41 00:05:40,140 --> 00:05:48,660 we grabbed the fabric, our thread and needle and we did that in the mornings. 42 00:05:48,900 --> 00:05:59,460 That makes people, that is, the people of Lima want to copy our 43 00:05:59,660 --> 00:06:02,700 designs, but they can't, why? 44 00:06:02,940 --> 00:06:11,300 Because we have that knowledge in our heads, it cannot be copied, everything we 45 00:06:11,540 --> 00:06:21,700 produce are unique pieces and there not copy, copy, copy, it is not a copy; and no 46 00:06:21,940 --> 00:06:29,140 one can take away that knowledge from us, because it is from ourselves, from our 47 00:06:29,380 --> 00:06:33,460 culture, from our ancestral knowledge that we have. 48 00:06:33,700 --> 00:06:40,600 That's all, thank you very much for letting me tell this little summary of my work. Thanks.