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"Palo Volador" (Flying Pole Ritual)
"Palo Volador" (Flying Pole Ritual)
"Palo Volador" (Flying Pole Ritual)

"Palo Volador" (Flying Pole Ritual)

Artist (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 numberPC2023.3.1.1
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 "flying pole ritual" is a papercut depiction of a central pole rising from a vessel with four additional poles descending from a square frame above. At the end of each pole are foods from the Americas including tomatoes, cacao, chiles, and corn. The central pole has a snake slithering down.
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