Abel Guzmán
ofrenda a la luna sangrada, 2023
Colored pencil, crayon, and marker on brown paper, and board with a mahogany wooden frame
24 x 20 x 2 1/4 in
61 x 50.8 x 5.7 cm
61 x 50.8 x 5.7 cm
- Translation: offering to the moon - Coyolxauhqui- Aztec moon goddess, daughter to Tonantzin/Coatlique, Sister to Huitzilopochtli. After trying to kill her monther, Huitzilopochtli cut off her head and threw...
- Translation: offering to the moon
- Coyolxauhqui- Aztec moon goddess, daughter to Tonantzin/Coatlique, Sister
to Huitzilopochtli. After trying to kill her monther, Huitzilopochtli cut off her
head and threw it in the sky to become the moon.
- I wanted connect to the indigenous practices of honoring the sun and moon,
which were seen as demonic practices to the Spanish colonizers.
- I thought of these drawing as embroideries
- La luna, feminine
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