Freddy Perez and Klini Rodriguez look for insects to capture and photograph. Documenting local biodiversity - and the cultural relation to it, have become the major and all-encapsulating component of our project. Shared knowledge of 'resources' (for lack of a better word) ultimately determines a people's politics, value system, education and above all, general cultural resilience. In simpler words: that which can be named as part of the Yekuana landscape reinforces language and therefore identify - and sovereignty. I speak and name my surroundings, therefore I am.
Image (c) Val Druguet.
