The Amazon Matters

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Year: 2025
Medium: Mixed media on canvas, oil pastels, acrylic, paint pen, walnut
Dimensions: 60.75″ × 48.75″ × 5″
Price: $14,500 (Framed Painting — SOLD)
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Description
This painting is a visual reflection of the artist’s sacred journey to the Peruvian Amazon — a path of healing, awakening, and reconnection. At its center stands a heart-shaped golden tree, whose roots and branches weave through worlds both ancient and futuristic. The tree holds within it the symbols of two opposing systems: the dollar and Bitcoin — one fading, the other rising. The trunk itself becomes a conduit, merging nature and code, love and logic, spirit and system.

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The word “SHIPIBO” crowns the top of the heart, honoring the Indigenous people who welcomed the artist into their traditions and ceremonies. Through Ayahuasca, the “vine of the soul,” a new clarity emerged. The swirling road of red, white, and blue flows into the heart, suggesting both a national identity and a personal transformation. Surrounding the path are powerful words: “DeFi,” “AI,” “Metaverse,” “Trust Matters” — signals of a new digital age rooted in decentralized values.

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Mushrooms bloom under a starry sky, nodding to the expanded states of consciousness that allowed the artist to envision the interconnectedness of atoms, ecosystems, and algorithms. A side profile of a human head, filled with flowing technology terms, anchors the lower left, while golden text proclaims the sacred truth: The Amazon Matters.

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This is not just a painting — it’s a manifesto in color and form. A reminder that the future of finance, technology, and even identity may lie in going back to our roots — where trust is sacred, consciousness is medicine, and the trees still speak.