The result of collaboration since 2015 with the La Pila community in Montecristi, Manabí (Ecuador), Corrientes de Retorno [rip currents] looks at the tensions between the process of heritage-building, the huaquería (Quechuan term used in Andean countries to refer to illegal digs at pre-Columbian archaeological sites), and the local reinterpretations of the craftspeople who create replicas of pre-Columbian pieces for the tourist market. The project focuses on the pillaging of archaeological pieces known as the Bay Giants, found on the Ecuadorian Los Esteros beach in 1966. Through the knowledge and sensibility of the artisans creating the replicas, these pieces make a symbolic return to their territory. The artist is interested in the hermeneutic, political, and utopian potential of the replica—as a strategy of return through fresh appropriations—and the act of copying as a means of destabilizing Western notions of originality and authenticity.