Came Renaco, Healing Tree

A photograph of the Came Renaco Tree, a tree used to prepare traditional medicine, that grows on the banks of the Shanay Timpishka River. In Shipibo tradition, when undergoing traditional healing, the patient must enter a spiritual relationship with the spirit of the plant. A top the image, kené embroidery representing the plant’s energy circuits and spirit, illuminated through traces of color. The kené flows to and from the plant to the hand in the previous image.