travels and cosmic messaging

True to her nature, El Chamizo has tumbled south along with fellow artists and museum representatives as part of an exchange program between Chiapas and Chicago organized by the National Museum of Mexican Art.

First on the agenda was a group show at the Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas (UNICACH). Among many local artists, we met Robertoni Gómez, whose lyrical clay sculptures grace many public spaces around Tuxtla. Robertoni was kind enough to escort our group to El Zapotal, one of Tuxtla's ecological preserves that also houses a zoo. We ended the day at his studio, a rambling property where sculpture and daily life mingle effortlessly.

You can see Robertoni's work on his blog, including the phenomenal Escultura Astroarte. Made of four concrete slabs facing the sun like open books on lecterns, Astroarte projects, by means of reflective surfaces, an image of the earth that comes together as a puzzle and falls apart again in a matter of minutest only during the Spring and Fall equinoxes.