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In collaboration with the Environmental Clinic in Lago Agrio, which has worked for 17 years to solve socio-environmental problems, Etérea created a therapeutic workshop for women with cancer, using clay as a tool for emotional healing and artistic expression.

The workshop offered:

We are earth and to the earth we go:
A safe space where each woman could connect with her emotions affected by cancer.
Return to the Origin: The Encounter with Clay
A field trip to Siekopai territory, where, together with a clay guardian, the women were able to use black clay as a therapy for their various aches and pains.

Bringing Clay to Life:
An artistic process in which the same material was symbolically used to express their own feelings about their cancer journey through object animation.
Healing goes beyond the body:
An intimate exhibition of their work for their own families, allowing them to express and express sometimes difficult feelings.

We are earth and to the earth we go:
A safe space where each woman could connect with her emotions affected by cancer.
Return to the Origin: The Encounter with Clay
A field trip to Siekopai territory, where, together with a clay guardian, the women were able to use black clay as a therapy for their various aches and pains.
Bringing Clay to Life:
An artistic process in which the same material was symbolically used to express their own feelings about their cancer journey through object animation.
Healing goes beyond the body:
An intimate exhibition of their work for their own families, allowing them to express and express sometimes difficult feelings.

I felt joy, a thrill, because I’d let go of all my thoughts about being sick. I mean, I’d let go of my bad energy, my thoughts about my health.

Laura T

What I liked most was the very act of making the figurines, of bringing our process to life by putting it into clay, because that’s the goal, trying to design it there with our own hands, with our own energy. I loved that process, and even more so the patience of the girls who helped us, who were guiding us. I loved that.

Marilú C.

The excitement one feels from what they make you do, the work itself, the game (…). (…). The animation, the ritual itself. I mean, it makes you focus and feel like you’re analyzing and recovering from many things you have inside, in your heart, in your mind. So, that ritual is like healing, like spirituality. And the animation of the girls is very good; they have a gift for that.

Olga C.

Workshop team