Macehualli

In the Legend of the Suns, Quetzalcoatl goes down into the place of the dead for the bones of an earlier humanity. The gods grind them and bleed onto the meal, and people rise from it: the macehualtin, the deserved, the ones who had to be paid for. Macehualli stands in the moment after. He is 210 cm of hacked, earth—dark bronze with the chin just beginning to lift, and down his chest runs one seam of mirror—polished steel, the blood he was made with. Stand in front of him and look for his maker in that line, and you will find someone looking back.

A standing figure sculpture proposed as a closed edition: 210 cm of silicon bronze, cast by lost wax, hacked and built up in facets under a hot brown—black patina, with a single seam of mirror—polished 316L stainless steel from the hollow of the throat to the navel, on a rough travertine block. It takes its name and its story from the Mexica account of the Fifth Sun, in which people are made from the ground bones of an earlier humanity and the blood of the gods, and are called macehualtin, the deserved. The seam reflects whoever stands before the figure. Editions: maquette 60 cm, life 210 cm, stainless 210 cm, monumental 360 cm. It first appears as the standing bronze at the glass in Clausura.