Deep in the Colombian Amazon, where dawn awakens to the songs of the forest and the whispers of water, this photographic series captures the quiet intimacy of Arquiles and Everginia, two elders of the Curripaco people who live in profound connection with their land.

At 53, Everginia Pinto blends into her sacred daily rhythm, behind the manare, a traditional tool she gently handles in a secluded corner of her home as she prepares casabe—not just as food, but as memory, as ritual. Her movements hold the silent wisdom of generations.

Among the objects that surround her is the dopichi, a yuca grater made from wood and nails. Its surface holds more memory in its skin than the human body itself, for it has witnessed the passing of many hands and many years. It must not be forgotten that the dopichi was once a tree—and within its wood lives the memory of the forest and of time.

This series does not seek to document the exotic, but to reveal the essential: the confluence of body, land, and object; of the human and the vegetal. A world where old age is not an ending, but the awakening of something deeper. Where resistance is not shouted, but grated, baked, and preserved in the gestures that endure.