The red path of the corn people contemporary rug60x100cm; 2x3ft Criollo sheep wool dyed with aniline dyes. This rug depicts the sacred mountain range around the central valley of Oaxaca that creates the microclimate that makes life possible and the cultivation of corn a way of life. There is also a teeth like pattern that reminds us that smiling and laughing is the source of true healing, the effects of smiling on the brain and health of individuals is well researched and documented by now. There
He worked hard to improve his workshop's roof top and then saved up to take his wife on a holiday trip to the USA
Rituals and ceremonies have been practiced on top of this sacred mountain evern since
Agave is the Queen of plants that give us all the gifts for a good life
We call mountains Daiín
There are many ancient stories of wise turtle people that kept ancient knowledge alive and had the power of vision
in the spirit world she would communicate with her patients to find out the source of their illness and then come back to the tonal world (day to day language world) to administer the healing with the precise amounts of plants and rituals needed for healing
the same word that we use to make the workd for Ocean
Our elders left prophecies that there will be days where the corn will not be able to grow and produce enough grain to feed our people
It will take a wave of blood to stop this unceeding ecnomic growth paradigm as represented by a red stripe that will run across the earth with the blood of native people and animals to protect the earth
The main pattern is the life cycle pattern that comes from uniting the left and right hand at the fingers in a mudra like shape
The other sound is baà that is found in words like ba'à (grave) or in the word labàá (root)
A collectors tapestry piece woven by my cousin Justino Martinez Mendoza using criollo sheep wool dyed with cochineal dyes
