Pararse duro! De la morralla a la gota de aceite. Del blanco al negro bonito

This article narrates an ethnography that takes shape as a creative process, forged through doodles that gradually transformed into sketches and drawings of the tools used in emerald guaquería, as well as the bonds with the people of the western region of Boyacá, Colombia. In this context, the Mining World is proposed as a visual and social poetics, constantly in tension with notions of “legality” and the relationship with nature. The series Golpe de Suerte is presented: six freehand drawings (ballpoint pen on bond paper) that appear throughout the text as a kind of decal. These drawings also serve as triggers for a methodology that discovers life as it encounters veins, understood as pathaways shaped by time, force, and pressure Around precious stones. A vein announces the guaca, the treasure, the wealth. Possibly, a vein leads to the emerald and, when that happens, guaqueros say that it “pintó.” The ethnography in western Boyacá has been carried out through a gaze grounded in drawing, which has broadly engaged with the doodle and the sketch by focusing on the repetitions of guaquero labor, of life, of the forest, of emeralds, and their mystery. The visual and social poetics of the Mining World are composed of: time, force, movement, tambre, pinta (r), and dominance

Ethnography · Gaze · Poetics · Sketch · Social life · Social relationship · Afro-Latin American Studies · Feminism, Gender, and Social Issues · Latin American Cultural Politics

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