Four Precious Trees
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 numberPC2023.3.1.6
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. This paper cut is a compostiion of four trees arranged in four quadrants. According to Aztec mythology, the gods Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca, turned themselves into trees and lifted up the sky after a great flood. When Aztec artists portrayed the universe, they painted sacred trees at the four corners supporting the sky.On View
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