Majui

Abstract

Is a deeply introspective artistic and literary project born from an aesthetic experience following a wildfire on the Majui Hill, in Cundinamarca, Colombia. Through a dystopian and apocalyptic narrative, the author explores the spiritual, environmental, and social decline of the modern world, linking his experience with artistic references such as Friedrich, John Martin, and Zdzislaw Beksinski. Majui is not merely a visual or performative work, but a reflection on human intervention in nature, the chaos of modernity, and the loss of connection with the essential. The project combines digitally intervened images with a text divided into seven chapters that connect the author’s personal journey with a symbolic portrait of a humanity in crisis. The journey through the ash-covered and lifeless hill symbolizes the author’s inner voyage, confronting destruction as a metaphor for a society that has lost its way—seduced by technological fiction, disinformation, and a fading spirituality. Throughout the text, previous performative experiences are intertwined with new explorations in two-dimensional media, such as painting and digital intervention. The work denounces collective numbness caused by consumerism, invasive technology, and media manipulation, proposing a search for truth amid the ruins. Majui Hill, then, becomes not only a physical place but a spiritual one: a revelation of the inner self, of what lies wounded in the human soul.