Residence Unsettled Landscapes (Pitzer Art+Environment Program) California, United States.

The action consisted in looking for pre-Hispanic melodies whose lyrics and messages were altered by the Spaniards during the colonization in America, melodies that have been converted from prayers to nature to Christian religious invocations; such alterations were made mainly by the Jesuits during the first evangelizations in Ecuador.

For the performance, these melodies were reverted to their original meaning and language and were sung in Quichua. There are seven prayers to nature that were performed in the Catholic Chapel of Margaret Fowler Garden.

From my own crossbreeding I start analyzing the cultural implications between the indigenous and the western in order to reflect on the processes of transformation and annulment of the theological knowledge of the original peoples by a dominant culture.

Lyrics of melodies:

Salve gran madre poderosa madre

Salve eterna tierra sagrada que brindas riqueza y bienestar

Damos gracias a nuestra madre, la tierra que nos sostiene, gracias  madre de cultivo gracias

Salve dolorosa y afligida tierra

Que tus dolores a todos nos salve

Santa tierra piedad

Nido de plata piedad piedad nido de oro piedad piedad

Perdón o tierra Santa o Diosa mía perdón madre tierra

Perdón indulgencia perdón y clemencia perdón y piedad