Thus Spoke the Guaca. 2m x 2m photograph laminated behind glass. The print is a life sized photograph of an installation. I built this installation being inspired by the notion of the guaca, a polysemic figure that is both a container and the objects contained in it. The guaca bears the faculty of casting a spell or wrapping up its finder. As a container, a guaca can be a pre-Columbian burial site, a trunk from colonial times, or a hidden stash from a mafia boss. The objects inside vary from golden artifacts, bank notes, weapons and packages of illegal drugs. Characters and ancestral situations are replaced by themes and sequences of recent history, bringing a dislocation in the time-continuum. Following this idea, the objects in this picture provide a cryptic image of all of those things while not being precisely any of them, creating a sense of puzzlement, a state of metaphysical uncertainty as to the true nature of the scene. bewitched.