Traditional Mexican Cooking Froms Metate, Masa, and Tortillas
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 numberPC2023.3.1.15
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 depictions of six vignettes of hands making Mexican cuisine interspersed with horizontal bands of floral decoration. The top two scenes are of hands rolling and patting tortillas, the second two shows hands cooking tortillas and grinding tomatoes and chiles. The last two images show a bowl of mole with turkey and a bowl of tamales with a hand stirring a pot of chocolate.On View
Not on view
