Ancestors

Ancestors

Artist: Sandra Chaves
Title: Ancestors
Technique: Micron pen on paper (Pointillism and Hatching)
Dimensions (with frame): 32 cm × 42 cm
Edition: Unique piece from 2023
Original signed work | Includes certificate of authenticity

Description:

"The hands that weave strands are the same that embroidered history with silent gestures."

In this image, time takes shape in fingers that do more than braid hair — they braid entire lives. These are aged hands that know the art of care, that have learned the language of affection through the small gestures of everyday life. Each strand, a memory; each knot, a promise of continuity.

There is a quiet reverence in this moment. There is no haste, only the natural rhythm of those who understand that the essential is built slowly. These hands were once young — they cradled children, harvested what they planted, and now braid roots into what is both human and eternal.

This braid is not made only of hair — it is woven from bonds: between generations, between pasts and futures.
The image is a tribute to the women who came before, to the grandmothers and mothers who, without speeches, taught everything that truly mattered.
Here, time does not wear down — it refines.