Musuk Nolte

The Belongings of the Air is a photographic essay born from the artist’s personal experience with ayahuasca at two moments in life—childhood and youth. This sacred plant, used by Indigenous cultures of the Amazon for centuries, awakened an early sensitivity toward the territory, functioning as a portal through which these images emerge as testimony to a bond with the forest and its mysteries.

Developed over more than a decade along various rivers of the Peruvian Amazon, the project intertwines documentary record and symbolic construction. Rendered in black and white, the photographs capture fragments of visions and liminal states where natural elements transform and regenerate, revealing hidden affinities between landscapes, animals, and human beings.

The title comes from the book Las tres mitades de Ino Moxo by César Calvo, where “the belongings of the air” evoke the vastness and elusive nature of the Amazonian universe. From this point of departure, the work unfolds as an intermediate territory where memory, vision, and landscape converge, expanding the boundaries of the visible and proposing new ways of imagining the relationship between humans and the natural world.