Cecilia Arango
Cecilia Arango is an industrial designer, plastic artist and the creative director of our brand. Through her work she has explored themes such as cultural identity and spirituality and has used artisan techniques as a metaphorical resource to tell stories.
Anthropology
I started working with the colombian cultural identity, but I realized that ancestral cultures were similar if their natural environment was similar, just as human beings of the 21st century have similar problems and reactions to them. A basket from Colombia resembles one from Egypt, as today a bag from Colombia resembles one from Japan. So today I work with the ancient cultures of the world.
Crafts and Peace
I have always believed that crafts lead to peace, because it values what is not valued by the colonial mentality, because it remembers our origins, because it projects the best of us, because it gives work to the humble ...
Weaving
Weaving is patience, it's calmness, it's thinking, it's meditating, it's giving time to time, it's intertwining ideas to create thoughts and interweaving them to create coexistence. Weaving is peace.
Environment
My love for Colombia has made me very close to the countryside, however I have found in my country and in the world, that this ideal paradise of the countryside is also plagued with waste from the industrial civilization. This led me to create a recycling project.
The origins
The indigenous people, along with the Afro-descendants and peasants have been my masters. Defending their cultural identity in the international contemporary world through my art language is defending myself.