{"title":"Mariana Castillo Deball","description":"\u003cp\u003eForming the expansive floor of the plaza level of the David Geffen Galleries, Castillo Deball’s monumental Feathered Changes emanates from the architecture in undulating paths of warm concrete that mimic lines raked into sand. Visitors who move across and along the pavement’s meditative striations encounter the footprints of other beings—coyotes, bears, racoons, roadrunners—who have long traversed this landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"mariana-castillo-deball-ixiptla-volume-v-amarantus","title":"Mariana Castillo Deball: Ixiptla Volume V Amarantus","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe word amarantus, which gives name to this publication, comes from the Greek aμάρανθος, and describes a flower that never wilts. This plant is still used to prepare ixiptlahuan, which are anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures that are ritually consumed by some indigenous peoples in Mexico. The amaranth flower represents the persistence of the “uncomfortable objects” that Castillo Deball makes visible in her historical itineraries and approximations, and that keep speaking to us in the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis publication features some of the artist’s long-term collaborators and interlocutors, including: Tatiana Falcón, with whom she made The Painter’s Garden; the organization Cooperación Comunitaria for The Double Life of the Azoyú Codex; Diana Magaloni around the term ixiptla and In Tilli in Tlapalli; Hubert Matiúwàa, through poems from his book Skin People; Barbara Mundy on cartography and the artist’s floor pieces; Jennifer Reynolds-Kaye on Alfred Maudslay; and Catalina Lozano about the history of women who have practiced archaeology in Mexico.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe publication also includes the essay A Dystopic Mesoamerica by Yásnaya Elena and an excerpt of Emiliano Monge’s novel Weaving Darkness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e- Paperback \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e- 208 pages, 9.8 x 8.6 inches\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e- Published by Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite, 2023\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LACMA Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45546026107065,"sku":"67780","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0049\/9292\/files\/ixiptla-size-frontcover.png?v=1762978264"},{"product_id":"mariana-castillo-deball-feathered-changes-paliacate-a","title":"Mariana Castillo Deball Feathered Changes Paliacate Triangle","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTo make Castillo Deball's printed fabric, each design is traced onto a wooden slab, which then is carved by hammer and chisel into a printing block by the artist. The block is then printed meticulously by hand using soft indigo pigment. Variation in printing \u0026amp; color are hallmarks of hand block printing and dyeing in small batches.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForming the expansive floor of the plaza level of the David Geffen Galleries, Castillo Deball’s monumental Feathered Changes emanates from the architecture in undulating paths of warm concrete that mimic lines raked into sand. Visitors who move across and along the pavement’s meditative striations encounter the footprints of other beings—coyotes, bears, racoons, roadrunners—who have long traversed this landscape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnother creature, so gargantuan his full form cannot be beheld at once, emerges in fragments across this work: it is the great Feathered Serpent of the cosmopolitan Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan, the details of his plumed body impressed into islands of black concrete. Castillo Deball derives this image from Teotihuacan’s ancient murals, now dispersed in museum collections around the globe. 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