Celebrating women today and always
This week, the world celebrated International Women's Day. In the Andes, women and girls experience the greatest impacts of the climate crisis as it amplifies existing gender inequalities and puts women’s lives and livelihoods at risk. Responsible craftsmanship is one way to respond to these challenges by using natural fibers such as those from camelids and the work of the greatest tool: the human hand. Aracari celebrates women, their resilience, creativity and fearlessness.
Please meet three extraordinary women
Estratigrama No.2 by Kristie Arias
‘Nodal Landscapes’ by Kristie Arias consist of 16 pieces that form a textile landscape. A knot is closure and origin, possibility, limit, growth and base. The knot is the starting point of the landscape-installation created by Kristie Arias as an equanimous edge of multiple symbols and desires.
Technique: Handwoven Textile Art Piece
Materials: Natural Fibers, mainly Alpaca, Coppel ring
100 CM diameter
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A textile artist and entrepreneur, Kristie Arias presented a solo exhibition at the Amano Museum in 2019. Her career has been defined by collaborations with artisans throughout Perú in different projects related to hand spinning, product development and retail. Kristie holds a bachelor of Art and Design of the Catholic University of Peru, and postgraduate of Byam Shaw School of Art - Central Saint Martins, United Kingdom. She studied Fashion Management at Mod´Art Peru and specialized in textile design at North Carolina College of Textiles, in the United States. Kristie has been a social entrepreneur, and a professor at the Instituto Mod´Art and at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru in the specialty of Art, Fashion and Textile Design. She directed Bodega MATE, the local and sustainable design store of the Mario Testino Museum in Lima, currently she is the commercial director of the sustainable fashion Peruvian brand, Escvdo, as a continuation of her mission to support Peruvian art, culture and crafts.
Ocongate Style by Adriana Peralta
Ocongate -Cusco
55X39cm
Printed with pigmented ink
Hot Press Natural Paper300g/m2
100% cotton
Adriana Peralta is a documentary photographer dedicated to recording the daily life of the people of Cusco and the rural territory of southern Peru. Her photographs are the testimony of contemporary life and the permanent coexistence with history and tradition; a past of encounters and communion with nature, against the debauchery and demands of the modern world. Her work embraces Andean women considered as the repositories and guardians of ancestral traditions.
Her work has been part of various collective exhibitions related to Cusco, as well as cultural and social publications.
Her images are a constant invitation to a rural journey through the faces, the essence and the joy of the people of the Andes.
Condor Vest by Alessandra Petersen
Hand made Alpaca and Baby Alpaca Vest
Alessandra Petersen is all about sustainable fashion and shedding a light on the detailed work that local artisans have been doing for generations; she actively creates a better working environment for the communities whose creativity inspire her brand. AP is the mix of two worlds honoring the finest of ancient Andean textile techniques, and the Scandinavian simplicity, creating a modern vision of ethical, delicate and handcrafted knits.
My very best wishes and happy shopping,
Marisol Mosquera