Creación de una propuesta artística a partir de la medicina tradicional de la comunidad de Ingapirca de la parroquia Santa Ana

Abstract

Throughout time, art has been a means of recording for medicine, the artist using drawing, painting and sculpture have served as chroniclers revealing diseases, methods of healing, deities, singular characters and medical-related events that occurred at a certain moment in the original civilizations and throughout history. The present degree work links art with the knowledge and knowledge of traditional medicine of the community of Ingapirca of the parish Santa Ana, starting from the concept of relational and community art, works together with six women to through digital illustration and audio recordings tell the ways in which we can prepare recipes for different evils such as gastritis , nerves, sorrows, scares or bad energies, these results are exposed in the same community, in which a relational exercise is also resolved where the collaborating women prepare medicinal recipes interacting with the audience present. The recipes take as reference four indispensable elements within the Andean cosmovision: water, fire, earth and wind. Each of them are important in traditional medicine and together with plants and other ingredients act to provide their healing properties and thus heal ills that suffer our being.