El Planeta Del Maiz

The work is the celebration of the New World culture - arts, crafts, music and food, through blending of the tangible/earthy and the spiritual - reimagining Aztec visual symbols - like those found in pottery, blankets, and mural paintings of the Indigenous cultures of Latin America - the pre-Columbian deities of the earth, plants and sun. I use AI as the mechanism for careful reinterpreting and reimagining - that’s why I lovingly call my models AIztec. it’s about the place somewhere in Americas, where the corn has its personal goddess, Chicomecōātl, and where are just three seasons - spring for digging the dirt and planting seedlings, summer for growing and blooming and fruiting, al that hard work culminating in the gloriously hot Indian summers of abundance and harvest. Every day starts early with the sound of quenta and ends with fiesta - fire roasted corn and poblano through the sunset! Wish we were there. The track is by Mikhail Galkin. Aug 2023