Title of the Piece: TZOMPANTLI

Technique:Found object; used bricks and marbles..

Commentary: A tzompantli was a prehispanic monument of war. It consisted in a structure formed of rows and colums filled with skulls. This structures sometimes "adorned" the sides of temples.

The texture, simplicity and geometrical quality of this intervention reminds me of the ocular cavities of the skulls, and the structure of the aztec monument, but this piece also simbolizes, to me, a duality between life and death.

Valeria Florescano 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

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