Al sonido lo voy convirtiendo en ser

I keep turning the sound into being

De niño travieso a pintor de sonidos, el testimonio de Santiago Yahuarcani conmueve por su sentido del humor y su inusitado recorrido. Sus experimentos infantiles solitarios con unos hongos que encontraba en el camino a la chacra de su madre, le sirvieron, años más tarde, de fuente de inspiración para crear nuevas figuras y sustentar a sus propios hijos con la venta de su arte. Nacido con madre uitoto y padre cocama, Santiago siguió, sin saberlo, los pasos de Fídoma, el héroe de la historia oral del clan Aymenu que coloreó todos los seres de la selva. Santiago, coloreó inclusive, sus sonidos. 

From a mischievous child to a painter of sounds, Santiago Yahuarcani´s testimony is moving because of its sense of humor and its unusual route. His solitary childhood experiments with some mushrooms he found on the way to his mother´s garden served him, years later, as a source of inspiration to create new figures and make a living for his own children by selling his art. Born to a Uitoto mother and a Cocama father, Santiago followed, not knowingly, the steps of Fídoma, the hero of the Aymenu clan oral history who brought color to all the being of the forest. Santiago, also brought color to its sounds.