Abya Yala means “land in its full maturity” or “land of vital blood.” Guna people coined this term, who inhabits near the Darién Gap (today North West Colombia and South East Panama) to refer to that section of the American continent since Pre-Columbian times.

Today, anti-colonial and indigenous activists throughout the continent are pushing for the American continent to stop being called as its colonizer named it and be reborn as its original people called it, Abya Yala.

With this series of collages, I want to create a narrative where BIPOC bodies reclaim this land and build a post-colonial visual discourse of how this rediscovery of ourselves and land as Abya Yala might look.

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These collages are meant to be the storyboard for a video project.