Germination of a first seed, dark, humid and fertile interior. The cave, like a stone womb, keeps seeds and bones. Deeply protect the waters that veil the life of the earth. Timeless place, keeps bad airs, winds in the form of snakes.
House of Xbakyalo in Maya k’iché (the one that makes bones or saves seeds) first mother, creator of bones. A very ancient deity that makes seeds and bones, corn and humans flourish from within. Pawahtun is another deity related to the cave, always linked to a snail or turtle shell that supports the earth and is also a permissive figure, an old man who is commonly represented in erotic scenes accompanied by young women whom he seduces and caresses.
Limestone soils purify calcium as they pass, drops that trickle down through stalagmites. Suhuy Ha (virgin water) the collection of drops drained from cavities was highly appreciated, a common practice in caves. Accumulated in vessels that allude to Chak or the simile of him Tlaloc, virgin water probably considered the purest and used in rituals.
This series of stuccos explores the space of the cave as eroticism and fertility, that primitive thing that makes the cave a house, an intimate space. Sensuality that in the dark hides the primitive impulse of creation.
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Lol Tun is a project in collaboration with josé garcía ,mx in Mérida, MX.
