Word: Hyká: name; stone; speech.
Origin: Muysk Kubun, Central Columbia.
Artist Statement: The first thing that came to me when I saw this word translation in the living-language-land project was the beautiful pictographs painted in remote locations around the world. Man has a great desire to communicate and the ingenuity of using natural pigments to paint symbols to communicate stories is very powerful. Actual pictograph photos inspired the stylized images on this piece.