Creation of the Earth Myth
Artist
Catalina Delgado-Trunk
(born 1945 Mexico City, Mexico; lives Albuquerque, New Mexico)
Date2020
Mediumcut paper
Dimensionssheet: 25 × 10 in. (63.5 × 25.4 cm)
ClassificationsPaper Art
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of the artist
Object numberPC2023.3.1.2
DescriptionA series of black paper cuts used to create the installation titled "Global Connections: Mesoamerican Myths, the Domestication of Nourishment, and its Distribution" at the Greenway Park in Boston." The "Creation of the Earth Myth" is a depiction of the sun above a figure holding a scale above its head. The figure is standing on an arrow. The bottom of the composition includes the Aztec crocodile sea monster known as Cipactli with two faces. According to the myth, the gods Quetzalcoatl and Texcatlipoca ripped the monster in half with one half cast down to make the earth and the other half cast up to make the sky.On View
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