Awareness and Renaissance
Holistika, Tulum, Mexico.
2024
This work reflects on our origin as humans, as living beings, seeking to awaken in the viewer a consciousness of unity.
It works as a notebook with several drawings and annotations, all of them as reflections on the same theme: the rebirth of the awareness that we are Nature.
Surrender to the forest, let sprout from you the awareness that you are one with the whole.
“Awareness and Renaissance” reminds us of where we come from, that we are Human, that we belong to the earth. The very term Human derives from Humus, meaning earth, and Anus meaning belonging to. This mural invites the viewer to relax, to surrender to the forest, to let a part of himself die, the more “civilized” part that lives away from nature, to allow the awareness of being one with the whole to be reborn and to sprout within him.
Death as a symbol, as a change of cycle, death as the birth of a new present.
The title of this mural: A Na'at & A Ka'Sijilen is written in Mayan language, the language of the inhabitants of this land, those who have been here for thousands of years and continue, the custodians of this territory. For me it is a way to pay homage and show my respect to this culture, especially as a foreigner and even more as a Spaniard.
Those two words mean Awareness and Renaissance. It was Avelino, the Mayan priest who gives therapies in Holistika, who provided me with the translation and explained to me how to write it in Latin letters. I took him to see the mural I was creating, and before I explained anything to him he already knew and understood what I was talking about, of course. We both work in the diffusion of this message, but with different languages.
I want to thank all those who made this work possible, Toni the director of Holistika, Milen Nae, Nida Safak, Memo the Holistika Manager, Avelino the Mayan Priest, Monchis for his great hospitality and sympathy, Joan, Cordelia, and all the Holistika Staff for their good treatment and hospitality.