
The Master Builders
Holistika, Tulum, Mexico
2024
“The Master Builders” is a work that emerged from my personal universe, where two characters that represent the master builders of temples in antiquity, on one side and the other side of the Atlantic Sea, converge. It is based on a hypothesis: How life would have been if the Spaniards who arrived in those lands 500 years ago had gone with a different attitude, closer to respect, humility and willingness to exchange knowledge.
A mural of communion, where ancestors unite and share their knowledge.

The figure on the left represents the Mayan temple builders and the one on the right the Iberian temple builders. Both wear costumes and attire inspired by elements of their traditions. Both carry a ceremonial staff that represents the connection with the cosmos and the knowledge of the stellar cycles and their value when building sacred spaces. They both hold a hand up as a sign of offering or healing, as if they were guarding between them the central circle that functions as a portal, an access to other deeper dimensions, where universal knowledge resides.
In the central part, below, there is a copalera, a ceramic piece used to place charcoal and copal or saumerio, used to cleanse the energies of spaces and people. From the copalera sprout plants, instruments and different forms of life, as a symbol of origin, of beginning, of vitality. In the upper part a human figure is suspended in the air upside down, with a plant inside, where the roots are located in the head and the branches and leaves along the body. We do not know if this figure is falling from the sky, or ascending, or if it is about to enter inside the central sphere being attracted by it.

It is a work where duality is very present, but a duality without tension, a kind and balanced duality that reminds us that what is on one side is on the other and what is above is below. It is a work that invites the viewer to stop, to observe it with a relaxed gaze and allow it to invade you and take you to a deeper place in your being. The central circular figure is designed as an element of meditation, when you stare at it for a long time it produces an optical effect on the observer, allowing him to enter into a deeper state of consciousness.







