Vegetables Balsa Figures Balsa wood grows amid the humidity of the Ecuadorian amazon forest. This wood with incredible qualities of lightness, floatation and resistance has been used ancestrally in the construction of crafts. Centuries later, Ecuadorian artisans are still devoted to carving the best balsa to create representative figures of the rich amazon flora and fauna. The process of carving the green wood until the drying can take from 2 days up to 3 weeks, depending on the design. Nowadays, the use of pigments and special lacquers give brighter shine and realism to these exotic creatures.
Ceramics come from the soil of the earth and the hands of crafty potters.
The indigenous villages have worked the soil for thousands of years. The art of creating ceramic objects is a means of expressing the scenarios of their daily life. The chivas and the canoes are samples of this. Either by land or by water, these means of transport are the picturesque symbols of all that is native to these rural areas and testimonies to the integration and trade between the Andean countries. Since cavern times music has been one of the first means of artistic expression devised by man.