Acrylic on canvas 24×30″
I painted one of the most beautiful memories I have about one of my trips to Cusco.
One afternoon in Pisac, after taking the medicine I saw the sun’s rays shining on a cornfield while a stranger played the saxophone.
Huachuma (Trichocereus/Echinopsis pachanoi), also known as aguacolla, hahuacollay, pachanoi, achuma, andachuma, or wachuma, is a ancestral medicine. It is derived from the San Pedro cactus and comprised principally of mescaline – a psychedelic alkaloid that is also found in peyote (another psychedelic cactus from North America).
The use of the San Pedro cactus in Peru can be traced back over 4000 years. There is archeological evidence that was found in a region of Peru near the Cordillera Blanca mountain range – once home to the Chavin culture – that demonstrates the long-time use of huachuma in that region.
