17.05.26

Multitudes in Madrid commemorating the 50th anniversary of that Tlatelolco horror ... a simulation of the ‘68 massacre of protesters led by the Mexican government in the precise site of the bloody conquest of the Aztecs by the Spanish where pyramids were dismantled to construct a cathedral that would later be repurposed as a winery.

16.05.26

Conquering as a series - N1, N2, N3, N4, and so on - where every other event is a capture and rebuild.

15.05.26

A los compañeros caidos el 2 de octobre de 1968 en esta plaza…

14.05.26

The scattered glyphs point to the displacement of the sacred body - a diasporic expression that predates a larger migration.
 

13.05.26

Everything is askew. "On 13 August 1521, heroically defended by Cuauhtémoc, Tlatelolco fell to Hernan Cortes. It was neither a defeat nor a triumph. It was the painful birth of the mestizo people that are Mexico today."

12.05.26

Gothic slant with appropriated magnificence leans heavily into past exploits.
 

11.05.26

An enclosure of ovoid blue sits within a field of forced pumice. The mortar screams with each trowel full.