"I painted this painting surrounded by the Yawanawá's most spiritual plants in a sacred part of their rainforest. The painting depicts a shamanic pot with a spiritual butterfly emerging. On the ground is Runua the ground snake & in the canopy we can see the sky snake Ashuinka."

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Above: Artist John Dyer in the Amazon Rainforest


Above: Artist John Dyer at work on his painting 'The Sky Snake Ashuinka and Ground Snake Runua' in the Amazon rainforest with the Yawanawá tribe.

Above: Artist John Dyer at work on his painting 'The Sky Snake Ashuinka and Ground Snake Runua' in the Amazon rainforest with the Yawanawá tribe. A traditional Yawanawá headdress fills the foreground of this photograph.

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