Aycoobo (La Chorrera, Amazonas, Colombia, 1967) is the son and heir of Abel Rodríguez, the esteemed botanist and foundational figure in contemporary Indigenous art. Positioned at the intersection of ancestral knowledge and contemporary artistic discourse, Aycoobo has emerged as a key voice in global Indigenous art. Under the tutelage of his father, he acquired a profound understanding of the medicinal and symbolic properties of Amazonian plant life. Combined with his shamanic experience, this has enabled him to develop a singular cosmology that articulates the ontological tensions faced by a contemporary man of knowledge displaced from his ancestral territory.

Aycoobo’s drawings, primarily executed on paper, are distinguished by their intense, contrasting color palettes that generate an optical and emotional activation of visionary imagery. These compositions often emerge from deep states of consciousness experienced during ayahuasca-induced astral journeys, positioning his work within a visionary tradition and a ritual epistemology. Through these visual narratives, Aycoobo offers viewers access to invisible dimensions that coexist with material reality but are largely imperceptible due to the alienating conditions of modernity—conditions that sever humanity from its essential ecological and spiritual connections.

Within the cosmological framework of the Huitoto people, to whom Aycoobo belongs, the beings of the forest—natural and metaphysical alike—constitute the fundamental sources of life. In this worldview, nature, humans, and community are ontologically inseparable. His practice affirms this unity, offering a critique of Western dichotomies between nature and culture and a reintegration of lineage, territory, and collective memory. Aycoobo’s work functions as portal and testimony, offering a profound aesthetic experience rooted in Indigenous philosophy and epistemology