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Eli Farinango

Photographer and Visual Storyteller
healing through remembering
   
Public Project
healing through remembering
Copyright Eli Farinango 2025
Date of Work Jan 2018 - Ongoing
Updated Jan 2025
Location Otavalo, Ecuador
Topics Conceptual, Documentary, Fine Art, Indigenous Narratives, Landscape, Personal Projects, Photography, Spotlight
Summary
healing through remembering narrates the experience of my return to my traditional territories to learn about healing with my grandmother.
Healing Through Remembering

Healing Through Remembering is a continual documentation of my learning and growing process as a Kichwa immigrant, as a woman that lives in two territories, that left her land out of necessity and walks search of herself and a place where her being can exist. I find my healing in photography, in words and in the plants that surround me. I inspire myself in my experiences and in the moments that have brought me joy, pain and through all those that have loved me.

I walk with the knowledge that the plants share with me, the knowledge that I remember through intuition and I fight strength in the radical idea that - home - exists within my body. These are a collection of visuals and poems that I share with you, so that you know me and see my process and, to leave an archive for my descendants and a road map to remembering the determination that our abuelitxs left for us in our memory  
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