Xiguiea - Greca Teotitlan Color:Blue

Xiguiea - Greca Teotitlan Color:Blue80x150cm; 2. 5x5ft. Criollo sheep wool dyed with synthetic dyes. Mario Martinez Mendez wove these two rugs to support his family; he ussually weaves for other families that export rugs but they have stopped hiring them for work. Mario has a repair bike shop as a side business but even that gig is slow these days. His wife buys our corn to make tortillas to sell in the local market, we get freshly hand made soft tortillas in return every morning. We

fire brings the beauty of flowers (sunlight's energy)

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Tejido a mano en telar Zapoteco del siglo XVI adaptado de telares Europeos

contemplating imminent death

In the world of the abstract geometry we are crated and to the abstract geometric world we shall return

It seems like we are digging precious materials from the earth's crust to store our stories

Our people have spent a lot of time observing the energy flows of nature

along with what seems like a ball for games

Our ancient calendar reflected this nature giving each day a different direction

Unfortunately in our Zapotec culture we stopped using the sacred frog and toad medicines due to the Spanish genocide to our people and the Catholic persecution of our rituals

Then a mountain pattern

Zapata vive y la lucha sigue