private COMMISSION
TLāLōCāN
Mexico City mexico 2022
Tlâlôcân ( Volcanic cedar and stainless steel, 4m Site specific commission )
In Tlâlôcân, the terrestrial and celestial converge. A sculptural threshold forged from volcanic cedar and mirrored steel, the work evokes the spectral geography of a mythic elsewhere an axis between worlds, a site of ancestral return.
Borrowing its name from the Aztec cosmology, Tlâlôcân was not merely a place, but a condition. The paradisiacal domain of Tlāloc, god of rain and fertility, existed as both mountain and mirror: a fertile underworld where the drowned and the lightning-struck found passage.
This totemic form does not recreate the past, but listens to it. Channeling pre-Columbian ritual architectures and serpentine mythologies, the work gestures toward a continuity of reverence for sky, for water, for the mountain that breathes. Stainless steel becomes an aperture, reflecting both the viewer and the surrounding atmosphere, while the cedar retains the trace of the forest, the grain of a terrain that speaks.
Installed as a monument and offering, Tlâlôcân becomes an atmospheric portal, a vertical axis through which cosmology re-enters the contemporary. In its presence, one does not encounter representation, but alignment: with weather, with memory, with the deep ecology of ritual.
Here, sculpture becomes a site for climate and spirit, an invocation of what lies beneath and beyond.