Calakmul 2023
Heart of Calakmul
I approach to check if what I think I see is true. The only focus that illuminates the scene in the bowels of the pyramid emits the brilliance of a radiant star, like those that appear in medieval paintings. Under the fine mist of lime, a sleepy line seems to wake up after fifteen hundred years of hibernation. Little by little, the line descends, comes out, lengthens, enters again; it falls, undulates, returns, rises again and closes. Gain volume, texture, life, color.
Journey to the Heart of Calakmul by Laura Emilia Pacheco, Letras Libres on February 28th, 2007
Forests of Calakmul
Calakmul’s tropical forests could be considered one of the most resistant ecosystems in the American continent. The area contains the greatest abundance of wildlife and the greatest diversity of mammals in the Maya region. Its great biological diversity includes more than 80% of the plant species of the entire Yucatan Peninsula, as well as 350 species of birds and almost 100 species of mammals.
It is home to several species of large vertebrates in danger of extinction in Mexico, such as the white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari), Central American tapir (Tapirus bairdii), jaguar (Panthera onca), puma (Puma concolor), king vulture (Sarcoramphus papa) and ocellated turkey (Meleagris ocellata).
The Mayan city that we know today as Calakmul (“the two adjacent pyramids”) bore the name of Uxte’tuun (“Three Stelae”). The archaeological remains of the area are made up of vestiges of at least 1,500 years (around 500 BC to 1000 AD) of intense population growth and complex social evolution that successfully adapted to the natural environment.
Works
Continua Abundancia
Oil on canvas 60 x 60 cm, 2021
Llegada al Templo
Oil on amate paper 40 x 60 cm, 2022
Naajil a Pixan
Ti’e úuchben xa’anilnaj,
ti’ tu’ux ku k’a’ajsaj a kajtalil,
ti’ ku p’aatal t’aan.
La Casa de tu Alma
In that ancient house,
home of your memories,
your word remains.
Jorge Miguel Cocom Pech
Todavia Enceguecido por el Sol I, II & III
Oil on amate paper 60 x 40 cm, 2023
There was only immobility and silence in the darkness, in the night. Only the Creator, the Trainer, Tepeu, Gucumatz, the Forefathers, were in the water surrounded by clarity. They were hidden under green and blue feathers, that is why they are called Gucumatz.
Fragment of the Popol Vuh, Sacred Book of the Mayans
Estación Calakmul, Una Entrada a Xibalbá
Oil on amate paper 40 x 60 cm, 2022
Un Mensaje Escrito en Tinta Invisible
Oil on amate paper 40 x 60 cm, 2022
Jade Calakmul Mask
Museum of Mayan Architecture
Baluarte de la Soledad, Campeche
Kaan, Cabeza de Serpiente
Oil on amate paper 40 x 60 cm, 2022
Vuelve Intacto a mi Memoria
Oil on amate paper 40 x 60 cm, 2022
Se me Agolpan las Lágrimas
Oil on amate paper 40 x 60 cm, 2022
Sendero al Más Allá
Oil on amate paper 40 x 60 cm, 2022
Enormes Mariposas de Ingenuos Colores
Oil on amate paper 40 x 60 cm, 2022
El Tiempo no ha Logrado Envejecerla
Oil on amate paper 40 x 60 cm, 2022
Áak’il Kaane
Áak’il káane’
ken u na’akal u chun kululche’,
u k’áat u chuk u pixanil.
Chen ba’a ale’, áak’ile kaane’ ma’ u yóojelí;
u pixan kululché,
ma’ tia’an ich u chunil:
tia’an, tia’an ichil u k’aay ch’i’ich’obe’.
The Plant Snake
The creeper
when it climbs the trunk of a tree,
aims to capture your soul.
What this vegetable snake ignores;
It is that the soul of a tree,
is not inside its trunk,
but in the singing of birds.
Jorge Miguel Cocom Pech
Buscador de Estrellas
Oil on amate paper 60 x 40 cm, 2023