“I started creating anthropomorphic vessels as a way to connect with these ancient stirrup spout vessels made by the Moche in Peru. It’s a way of sort of revering the animals for their incredible capabilities and honouring people at the same time. Cos we’re all sort of closely related, plants, animal, humans, we’re all closely related. This is the theme which has been permeating throughout my life. I think its in my blood somehow. 

Indigenous ways are not lost. Indigenous people are here. I’m just trying to tap into some of that native language, as a way to keep these epistemes and these ancient ways of thinking alive.” Karen Jaimes’s bold political sculpture | Testudo Studio Spotlights