O SANTO DO CAFÉ

2025

Mixed media on canvas.

Gold leaf, wax and oil paint.

110 x 70cm.

Between these hands rests the fruit of a land cultivated in silence. The figure of the saint does not appear as a distant presence, but as one embodied in everyday labour — in the harvest, and in the humble yet decisive gesture that helped shape the future of so many Colombian lands.

Coffee emerges as a symbol of memory, rootedness and belonging: the fruit of the farmer’s labour, given from the earliest hours of the day in a silent exchange with the land, beneath a golden sun for which he gives thanks — for his present and for that of his family. It is an inherited legacy that sustains the identity of the coffee grower, suspended between the ancestral and the spiritual.

A red fruit of life, while the central figure rises through shadow and light, reminding us that every harvest is ultimately an act of faith.