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Catalina Estrada:
I am going to talk about the pasto varnish
Juana ruiz.
It is a natural resin that comes out of a tree. We as
artisans prepare it. This has a process like
maceration with a pot, it is cooked, it is stretched.
Then it begins to be prepared, to be beaten, until all
the impurities that come out of the tree are removed,
which are like bits of wood and all that, until it is
totally clean. Then you begin to do procedures with
aniline and glitter.
Mary Ortega is a varnish artisan from Pasto. She
works with the resin of the Mopa-Mopa tree in her
workshop together with her husband Mario
Narváez. Both have focused on continuing to
maintain the tradition that.