Material(s): paper,
Size: 8.5x11x5 computer paper original/ plastic transparency. 777.77usd. Installation various
[116 exhibitions]. No budget exhibit/donation

Artist Statement

I am a remnant of the Nahuatlacah oral tradition a tonalpouhque mexica, a commoner from the lowlands (i.e. Mexico) from a time and place that no longer exists. At present my poetry has been reified as it has been published in the UK, US, India, Spain, Australia, Argentina, Germany and Venezuela. Exhibited in different venues with a work that’s titled: Transparencies in Time: Cuahpohualli embedded in ethnopoetic language poetry:. I seek to expand this work into a comprehensive exhibit in a gallery and/or installation in 3D public art sculptures and mural options all accessible in public art both outdoors and indoors. In these the sculptures/murals are mirrors of dreams; it’s a refraction of our ancestors so you see a mirror in yourself. In this the simple premise is to create dialogue and literacy in the community as the essence of the public arts concept is to reflect unity and clarity in all those that view it as a refraction of the soul.

I was born in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico, where I spent my childhood in the small neighboring rural pueblo of Tarimoró and wherefrom my family immigrated in 1988. My inspiration(s) include Netzahualcoyotl, Humberto Ak’abal, Ray A. Young Bear, and James Welch. I have a work in progress of a short-story series where I interpolate the sunstone calendar (i.e. the primary source of the Cauhpohualli Computo del tiempo azteca y su correlacion actual Anahuacayotl de Tlaxcalancingo, Puebla). To bring to life a micro-fiction project titled San Miguel de Tarimoró ca. 1546. It’s a micro-fiction work of short stories that delve into the immaterial aspects of time. It will be digitized into video with simultaneous audio in video-book view narration. Namely, it’s a bridge from poetry to narrative storytelling. The work is a catalog of 365 days in the Tonalpohualli or count of days in hologram. My work is rooted in Mesoamerican lore and a pre-Columbian notion of time that’s extant in poetics and as such it’s the foundation and bedrock. While in ceremony with Chololo medicine men in the Tule River Reservation he dreamt this written prophecy.