Tatiana Apráez on Barniz de Pasto, a Latin American decorative lacquer technique she uses to design jewelry:
Each of my pieces emerges during a process of contemplation, challenge and desire, but it’s also […] intended to be a creative process that can endure.
Apráez emphasizes maintaining the expertise involved in traditional practices, connecting “ancestral inheritance with the future we want as a creative community”:
This goal requires extensive research to consolidate traditional knowledge, sometimes combining it with new technologies or rediscovering lost knowledge. It hasn’t just been a process of doing things, it’s meant adapting to uphold our beliefs, doing everything with greater rigour and excellence.