Name: Upixan K’ax, The heart of the world | Kayúm Ma'ax
SKU: 11001
Price: 45000.00 MXN
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Upixan K’ax, The heart of the world | Kayúm Ma’ax

$45,000.00

Oil on canvas
100 x 150 cm
2015

“The heart gives life to the whole world, the sun gives us light. The man (on the left) is Bor, the grandfather. He asks the lord of the world, and the lord takes the form of a little person who prays for the custom and performs his ceremony. A river came, and the water entered the pot that has alcohol, touched his feet, and came out again. They are tears. The mothers embrace.” Continues below.

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“Moms are the mother earth we embrace. If they don’t embrace you, you won’t be here. The man holding the beer, he is very different, his feet turn into roots; he is wrong because it was not his custom. The offering to the jaguar is not wrong. The jaguar has eyes to see the heart, to see the world. The two armadillos: the first one brings corn, saying ‘we eat corn.’ The other armadillo: ‘I bring the sample of beans, which is also number one because we live on the land. It is eaten with corn.'” – Kayúm Ma’ax

Kayúm Ma’ax, Maya/Lacandón artist, was born in Naha, Ocosingo, Chiapas, Mexico, in 1962. A self-taught artist awarded the Chiapas Prize in 1992. He paints with an eye trained since birth in the jungle environment, and an unprecedented narrative ability informed by the worldview and local history of Nahá (a population of 250 people) that has only been “open to the world” for about 50 years. Learn more.