THE ORIGIN IS ALSO HEARD

In Caimán Bajo, Necoclí , a group of Guna Dule women work with thread like someone drawing a map of the world. Each stitch, each shape, each layer is a conversation: with the land, with their ancestors, with time. In this collaboration, we decided not to start from an existing piece, but from something deeper: a living conversation that would allow us to understand the worldview behind the mola .

The process was led by Amelicia Santacruz , a member of the Duleome Mola collective and a participant in the Banco de la República's Molas: Layers of Wisdom exhibition. With her guidance, we rebuilt the mola from scratch, not as a decorative object, but as a symbolic system . Every line, every cut, every color had a place and a purpose.

One of the fundamental elements of this collaboration was the color black . For the Guna Dule people, black doesn't represent emptiness or death, but origin . It's the color of silence and listening, that profound state we inhabit before birth. Incorporating it was a recognition that every act of creation begins in fertile darkness.

We also wove the symbol of the bird , a key figure in the Guna Dule spiritual vision. Messenger between worlds, guardian of dreams, the bird represents freedom and the soul in motion. Its presence on the mola isn't illustrative: it's a sacred gesture , an affirmation that textiles can also be a channel.

The molas developed in this capsule don't seek to translate or simplify. Instead, they propose an encounter : between traditional art and contemporary narrative, between what is inherited and what is interpreted. A gesture of respect, of collaboration, of deep listening.

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