FLORENCE GOUPIL

Llupa, Huaraz, June 14th, Peru 2021. Valentin, a one-year-old baby from the community of Llupa, laying in the ground among germinated corn seeds that will be later be used to prepare the corn drink called 'chicha'. These corn seeds, drying under the sun, are treated as newborns and, like Valentin, were resting on the same hand-woven Quechua cloth we call Lliclla. According to Andean tradition, shrouding babies in the lliclla helps to make their muscles stronger.