Since his early childhood, Carlos Jacanamijoy (1964) already experienced an obsessive need to draw. Without a doubt, it was already that passion that would mark his life from then on. That unavoidable vocation that in 1982 led him to study art at the National University, an unexpected decision, considering he was a young Inga, son of a respected shaman of his community, raised in the family environment of his native land in the Sibundoy valley, an idyllic landscape of the Colombian Putumayo.Until that moment, Carlos Jacanamijoy had lived among his people, in contact with a splendid nature that consolidated the myths and legends he frequently heard. Also in contact with the sacred rite of yajé, one of the fundamental pillars of Inga culture, as he himself states, a ceremony associated with the bodily and spiritual cleansing of those who practice it.All these childhood experiences, added to the personal vision he forms of nature, are what the artist later reworks into atmospheres, colors, and movements that he captures on canvases where, more than the figurative, the sensory, the evocative, and the suggestive prevail. Without a doubt, the captivating originality of Carlos Jacanamijoy, his dreamlike vision of the world, is linked to the heartfelt decision not to stray from his roots or his history.As Álvaro Medina notes, author of the essay accompanying this special selection of the artist's work, sponsored by Seguros Bolívar, it is a painting imbued with autobiographical flavor, where every element of its rich plastic elaboration can be associated with people and events in the life of this Colombian artist, whose talent is now recognized worldwide.