private COMMISSION
TLāLōCāN
Mexico City mexico 2022
Tlâlôcân ( Volcanic cedar and stainless steel, 4m Site specific commission )
A sculptural formed from volcanic cedar and welded mirrored steel, the work evokes the spectral geography an axis between worlds.
Borrowing its name from the Aztec cosmology, Tlâlôcân, 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 gestures toward a continuity of reverence for sky, for water, for the mountain. Stainless steel becomes an aperture, reflecting both the viewer and its surrounding, while the cedar retains the enegy of the forest and volcanno it grew within.