My art evokes the feminine mythologies of sacred seeds and the Andean agrocentric symbolism
The Mamalas series brings to life the mother spirits of seeds and plants central to Andean cosmology. Each painting personifies these natural elements as powerful feminine figures, honoring their role in sustaining life and culture.
Praise for Mamalas
Seeds are the self-renewing basis of life that is why diverse cultures have held seed as sacred. Seeds are the source of abundance, from one seed arises hundreds and thousands of seeds – to feed us as grain, to be saved as seed for future harvests.
Women have been the seed keepers across cultures, throughout history. And the sacredness of seed has b een symbolized as mother goddesses, the Mamalas as so beautifully and powerfully expressed in the paintings of Valentina Campos.
Navdanya, the movement for seed saving and Diverse Women for Diversity, a global movement of Women for the defense of cultural and biological diversity are happy to bring you this celebration of seed.
VANDANA SHIVA
- Mamalas - The Spirit of the Seeds
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