Leticia, like many regions of Colombian territory, has been undergoing change for a long time. Historically, it has been both harmed and favored by the exploitation of natural resources such as quinine, rubber, and coca. Situated in the heart of the Colombian Amazon, Leticia is home to both colonists and Indigenous peoples. Indigenous communities promote a deep respect for nature and a sustainable way of life, in which human beings are just one part of a larger environmental whole. This worldview, however, stands in stark contrast to the model of resource exploitation promoted by Western capitalism.

Leticia embodies the idea of a frontier — between one language and another, one country and another, water and land, civilization and nature. In a series of four drawings created on artisanal fique paper using image transfer and ink drawing techniques, a reflection is offered on the Amazonian territory, where Coragyps atratus, a scavenger bird known in Colombia as the “chulo,” is now one of the most common species.

On fragments of Leticia’s map, cut out from their geographic context, we see birds — or fragments of birds — as if flying over the territory, waiting for their prey to die before descending to feed.