estamos formadosalineados
listos
y atados
uniformados
unidos
a tiempo
hasta que vengas
llegues
y camines
lunes, agosto 18, 2008
atados y uniformados
estamos formadosalineados
listos
y atados
uniformados
unidos
a tiempo
hasta que vengas
llegues
y camines
Necia
yo te esperabahasta que entraste esa tarde
de coincidencia
presumiendo y de prisa
y yo esperandote
- necia para viajar contigo
pero muy tarde comprendi
que yo no era lo que buscabas
las piedras se rien...
cruzas
corriendo
las piedras se rien de ti
el viento te acaricia
tus dedos se chivean
y no quieres que te alcanze
no dejes de correr, no dejes de andar
que tus rodillas
se saluden
las piedras se rien de ti
verte verde y verde verte
me ves por delante
no me dejes de ver
entre la sombra y el sol
de verde y al revez
te dije que no
pero no te dejaste de soltar
al contrario
te aferraste
y me quede
miércoles, julio 09, 2008
Summer in Long Beach
This sculpture adorns the new wing of the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, California. It's very colorful, from any angle.
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domingo, junio 08, 2008
"From Reel to Real Life" - LA Times Article -
Mexico's crystal skulls, from reel to real life
Alexandre Meneghini / Associated Press
People in Palenque, Mexico, watch as Mayan priests participate in a ceremony that involves a crystal skull. Some believe the skulls can emit and focus light, project visions and even influence terrestrial forces, though scientists disagree.
The latest Indiana Jones sequel is inspired by an ancient Maya legend, one that still inspires worship today.
PALENQUE, MEXICO -- There is a legend that the ancient Maya possessed 13 crystal skulls which, when united, have the power to save the Earth -- a tale so strange and fantastic that it inspired the latest Indiana Jones movie.
Experts dismiss the hundreds of crystal skulls around as fakes that were probably made by unscrupulous antiquities traders in the 19th century. But even today Mayan priests worship the skulls and real-life treasure hunters still search for them.
The story of the skulls stretches over continents and hundreds of years, and may be even more extraordinary than the tale portrayed in the fourth installment of the Indiana Jones franchise.
Few of today's crystal skulls can be documented any further back than the 1860s, when Europe was swept by a rage for pre-Hispanic "relics." Frenchman Eugene Boban, a colorful antiques dealer with a checkered past and murky political ties, set up a store here to supply the trade after the French invaded Mexico.
Eventually he carted skulls between New York, Paris and Mexico City, selling them to private collectors.
Buyers were often told that the skulls were made by the Mayas, whose civilization peaked between 300 and 900 A.D. But no crystal skull has ever been excavated from a documented archaeological site. Some believe the skulls can emit and focus light, project visions and even influence terrestrial forces.
Today, these beliefs persist in the jungles of southern Mexico among the Lacandon, one of the few isolated Maya peoples, some of whom still worship the skulls.
In the shadow of the Palenque ruins, Lacandon priest K'in Garcia fans incense and holds a heavy crystal skull above his head during ceremonies for Hacha'kyum, the Mayan god of creation.
Garcia, son of the Lancandon's most respected elder, Chan Kin, believes the skull has special powers, including the ability to stave off sickness and deforestation in the rain forest where the last Lacandon live.
"When I am alone at night, at about 2 a.m., it starts to glow, it emits light, and it stays like that for about a minute," said Garcia.
Garcia says the skull was given to him by a local man -- and while he believes it is very old, he doesn't know where it came from.
Thousands of miles away in Washington, Jane MacLaren Walsh keeps one of the skulls in her office at the Smithsonian Institution. She doubts the ancient Mayas ever had any such skulls.
An anthropologist and antiquities sleuth, she has spent more than a decade studying the best-known skulls, such as the ones acquired by the British Museum and Paris' Quai Branly museum more than a century ago, as well as the Smithsonian's own skull.
She says they are stylistically unlike pre-Hispanic depictions of death's heads, and often show microscopic marks from cutting tools unavailable in pre-Hispanic times.
"None of them is ancient," said Walsh, who recently wrote an article for Archaeology magazine examining the legends surrounding the skulls.
About the purported powers, she notes wryly: "I've been sitting in fairly close proximity to one of the skulls for about 16 years, and I have not witnessed anything like what people say."
The British Museum keeps a skull in its collections largely as a curiosity, listing its provenance as "probably European, 19th century."
It's possible that the near-human sized fakes may have been inspired by two real crystal skulls now on display at Mexico City's respected National Anthropology Museum. Much smaller and less perfectly carved than the ones held at the museums in Europe, these jewelry-sized trinkets, about an inch in height, are in the Aztec and Oaxaca collections, where the museum classifies them as either late pre-Hispanic or early colonial.
The skulls' legend has spawned a new breed of followers. New-agers have associated the skulls with the belief that the Mayan "Long Count" calendar runs out on Dec. 21, 2012, when it reaches the end of a 5,126-year cycle. According to this theory, all 13 skulls must be reunited and lined up together to prevent the world from falling off its axis.
"I personally feel that [the skulls] are coming out now because humanity needs the information, their energy and they have probably their own purpose why they're coming out: to help us to create world peace," said Joshua " Illinois" Shapiro, 53, a self-described Crystal Skull Explorer who makes a living touring and lecturing.
Shapiro has traveled the world seeking out skulls, and believes they link us to knowledge of past worlds like the Mayas, the lost civilization of Atlantis, or even extraterrestrials.
"I was wearing the Indiana Jones hat for a very long time," he claims, "far before they ever thought about putting a crystal skull in an Indiana Jones movie."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-crystalskulls8-2008jun08,0,3549594.story
Experts dismiss the hundreds of crystal skulls around as fakes that were probably made by unscrupulous antiquities traders in the 19th century. But even today Mayan priests worship the skulls and real-life treasure hunters still search for them.
Few of today's crystal skulls can be documented any further back than the 1860s, when Europe was swept by a rage for pre-Hispanic "relics." Frenchman Eugene Boban, a colorful antiques dealer with a checkered past and murky political ties, set up a store here to supply the trade after the French invaded Mexico.
Eventually he carted skulls between New York, Paris and Mexico City, selling them to private collectors.
Buyers were often told that the skulls were made by the Mayas, whose civilization peaked between 300 and 900 A.D. But no crystal skull has ever been excavated from a documented archaeological site. Some believe the skulls can emit and focus light, project visions and even influence terrestrial forces.
Today, these beliefs persist in the jungles of southern Mexico among the Lacandon, one of the few isolated Maya peoples, some of whom still worship the skulls.
In the shadow of the Palenque ruins, Lacandon priest K'in Garcia fans incense and holds a heavy crystal skull above his head during ceremonies for Hacha'kyum, the Mayan god of creation.
Garcia, son of the Lancandon's most respected elder, Chan Kin, believes the skull has special powers, including the ability to stave off sickness and deforestation in the rain forest where the last Lacandon live.
"When I am alone at night, at about 2 a.m., it starts to glow, it emits light, and it stays like that for about a minute," said Garcia.
Garcia says the skull was given to him by a local man -- and while he believes it is very old, he doesn't know where it came from.
Thousands of miles away in Washington, Jane MacLaren Walsh keeps one of the skulls in her office at the Smithsonian Institution. She doubts the ancient Mayas ever had any such skulls.
An anthropologist and antiquities sleuth, she has spent more than a decade studying the best-known skulls, such as the ones acquired by the British Museum and Paris' Quai Branly museum more than a century ago, as well as the Smithsonian's own skull.
She says they are stylistically unlike pre-Hispanic depictions of death's heads, and often show microscopic marks from cutting tools unavailable in pre-Hispanic times.
"None of them is ancient," said Walsh, who recently wrote an article for Archaeology magazine examining the legends surrounding the skulls.
About the purported powers, she notes wryly: "I've been sitting in fairly close proximity to one of the skulls for about 16 years, and I have not witnessed anything like what people say."
The British Museum keeps a skull in its collections largely as a curiosity, listing its provenance as "probably European, 19th century."
It's possible that the near-human sized fakes may have been inspired by two real crystal skulls now on display at Mexico City's respected National Anthropology Museum. Much smaller and less perfectly carved than the ones held at the museums in Europe, these jewelry-sized trinkets, about an inch in height, are in the Aztec and Oaxaca collections, where the museum classifies them as either late pre-Hispanic or early colonial.
The skulls' legend has spawned a new breed of followers. New-agers have associated the skulls with the belief that the Mayan "Long Count" calendar runs out on Dec. 21, 2012, when it reaches the end of a 5,126-year cycle. According to this theory, all 13 skulls must be reunited and lined up together to prevent the world from falling off its axis.
"I personally feel that [the skulls] are coming out now because humanity needs the information, their energy and they have probably their own purpose why they're coming out: to help us to create world peace," said Joshua " Illinois" Shapiro, 53, a self-described Crystal Skull Explorer who makes a living touring and lecturing.
Shapiro has traveled the world seeking out skulls, and believes they link us to knowledge of past worlds like the Mayas, the lost civilization of Atlantis, or even extraterrestrials.
"I was wearing the Indiana Jones hat for a very long time," he claims, "far before they ever thought about putting a crystal skull in an Indiana Jones movie."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-crystalskulls8-2008jun08,0,3549594.story
sábado, mayo 31, 2008
Pointing in the Right Direction
I have signed up to take an Introduction to Sculpture class this summer. Although I am unlikely to make a sculpture that will be as large as these, or at least as big as the bottom elephant, I am excited about the possibility of making an actual piece of art. Who knows? Perhaps, I will be able to contribute to public art spaces such as this one in the future!Elephantitis & Elephantitos
There is something quite nice about this blue stone material that was used to make these elephant sculptures. These are in Portland, Oregon.
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