Andrea Serini Argentina
Inti Raymi - Haywa I ring/object
Piece featured in the exhibition Tincal lab Challenge 2025 Jewelry and Celebration (maximum price 150€)
Materials copper, sheep fleece, linen thread, ceramic, glazes, natural dyes, patina
Size 70x55x60mm
Inti Raymi: the ancestral festival honoring the Sun God, the source of light and life in the Inca worldview, with which the Andean indigenous peoples celebrate a new year.
“… I know almost nothing about God, but when I try to imagine him, the sun appears to me... Omnipresent, just, unbreakable. Against whom neither chains nor golden lures can prevail… Nothing is more like God than this sun of ours, the beginning of life, so far away and yet so close. And we, his children, wanting to become like him; owing him the best of all offerings, the only one the sun can expect.
To go out into the sky, to illuminate one day
the first morning without hunger
the first morning without fear
the first morning of men.
To go out into the sky to illuminate
the first morning without slaves.”
