Reseña

This autoethnographic work reclaims craft as a method of identity-making and cultural continuity. Grounded in my translocal experience as a Colombian maker, it explores how bag-making—through Indigenous techniques, recycled materials, and cross-cultural collaborations—can disrupt colonial aesthetics and contain hybrid, ecological, and resistant meanings. Through four “craft moments,” I reflect on working with pindo fibre, reimagining the Iku/Arhuaco bag, dialoguing with Congolese ethnographic collections, and engaging with Sámi traditions. Drawing on theories of hybridity, appropriation, and sustainability, I propose hybrid craft as a political methodology—where making becomes introspection, repair, and refusal. This work insists on the ethical urgency of crafting with care, complexity, and accountability in a world shaped by dispossession and erasure. Ultimately, it offers a model for how bag-making can challenge dominant narratives and serve as a vessel for carrying cultural memory through relational, situated practices.