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images by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg,
12 November 2014
Today the local newspaper
El Colombiano shows a
picture.
I don't know exactly what it stands for, but it seems to be some sort of
indigenous people version
of the Colombian flag variant (let us remember that
when current President Juan Manuel Santos was elected President back in 2010,
before he went to Congress for his inaugural speech as it is costume on August
7, he first traveled to the Sierra Nevada in the rural area of
Santa Marta on August 6, to attend a spiritual and
religious ceremony to receive the blessing of the indigenous peoples that live
there: kogi, wiwa, arawak and kankuam).
Esteban Rivera, 10 October 2012
image located by Esteban Rivera, 10 October 2012
Well, it's a pattern with yellow over blue over red in both directions. It may be the actual warp and weft, of almost ribbon-like yarn.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 24 January 2013
Do you mean diagonally (yellow-blue-red) from top to bottom and are you suggesting the green and purple box appearances come from the mixing of the colored threads?
Pete Loeser, 25 January 2013
I mean that both horizontally and vertically it's wide yellow, narrow blue, narrow red. If you look closely at the image, you'll see that the orange, green, and purple are really bi-colours. Likewise, you can see that the red, yellow, and blue have a pattern to it that matches the two colour pattern of those secondary colours. It's really like a warp and weft of 0,5 cm wide combining to give those colours. That's what gives them that specific look.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 26 January 2013
As Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, has mentioned fully in his 24, 25 and 26 of January 2013 posts, this is simply a Colombian woven fabric flag, with "interlacing" colors (between the warp and weft directions) due to its hand made proccess in which the ratios are kept between the colors (yellow is 50% on top, yellow 25% in the middle and red 25% on the bottom) plus having "additional" colors due to the combination of all of them (green as a result of mixing yellow and blue, orange by mixing yellow and red, and purple by mixing blue with red). Also Peter attaches an image that pretty much covers the topic and identifies the flag.
Esteban Rivera, 02 February 2013
Well, I probably should send them to the list then: One just the colours, and one with the edges of the yarn indicated. I see that the effect of the orange does work in my image, but the purple and green less so; I guess the specific shade of blue used in the flag has something to do with that.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 03 February 2013
I remember that this flag first spotted in 2010 does exists, not only as a
desktop flag, but also as a flag displayed at the President's office, as seen
in the following news report by RCN tv news channel.
Image attached is a screenshot of RCN tv news taken on February 19, 2014.
I haven't been able to identify this flag. My best guess is that it is an
interpretation, rendering (or wahtever similar word you can find) of the
Colombian flag from a native people's point of view using a warp (weaving
tecnique) interlacing the different colors of the flag and having them
overlapped instead of mixed (to forma a new color) in a sense of respecting
differences among the significance of each color (and also maybe to represent
multiracial origin). Again, it is a guess and a symbolic description.
Esteban Rivera, 06 April 2014
And in other shots this was seen to be free-standing, not merely on a high
point like the thingy on the viewers' left? Well, either way we know the design
is still in use.
The appearance of the tween-colour also depends on the size of the image,
obviously.
Unfortunately, when I asked the Colombian government about it, I received back a
message asking what I was asking about. (The wonders of top-posting mean I don't
know what they were asking about.) This lead nowhere, which may have to do with
my imperfect grasp of the Spanish language.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 08 April 2014
According to https://en.ceciarango.com/entrelazadas:
In the year of 2006 I created the work ENTRELAZADAS, Colombian flag of peace, by invitation of the then-gallery Goodman Duarte, today La Galería to an exposition very banal over color. As my work is part of my love to Colombia, it was very easy to decide with those experiences in making a work using the Colombian flag, because color is the language of a flag.
I created a woven flag, like my work in basket weaving, and thinking of that necessity of weaving our differences in order to come to a consensus. I wanted to make a work that wouldn't matter if appeared naive. In changing a lance of war, which is used on flagstaffs by tradition, I wanted to use a dove of crude wood thinking in what a farmer would do to express his wish for peace. The same is the base, very simple, done with tablets of crude wooden scraps.
In summary, this was an art project to show the idea of peace in Colombia using the flag as the medium.
Zachary Harden, 21 September 2024
