Forgiveness is not an act.
It is transformation.

These masks do not represent identities:
they are unstable, fragmented, hybrid faces
that reveal what remains unspoken:
the broken bonds between people, community, and land.

To cover oneself is not to hide.
It is to let other forces speak:
memory, guilt, the collective.

Each piece is in transition:
between what we are
and what would need to change.

Forgiveness is constructed.
That is why the ritual is collective, embodied, and public.
It is not about forgetting, but about reordering.

Inspired by Bëtsknaté, Carnaval del Perdón, in the Sibundoy Valley.