Claudia Peña Salinas

Claudia Peña Salinas: Hi, my name is Claudia Peña Salinas.

For maybe about four, five years now, I've been working with these two water deities that come from the Aztec, and it's Tlaloc and Chalchiuhtlicue. They're almost like drawings in space too and the colors that I'm using, they're these yarns that are dyed with colors that associated with the deities. In this case, they would be a bunch of greens and blues.

My way of coming into sculpture is through installation, so everything is always part of each other. So, the main sculpture would be the deity and then from there, all these other things branch off.

Narrator: Today, the sculptures that Salinas based these works on can be found at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.

Claudia Peña Salinas: I discovered that he'd been brought from a small town two hours away from Mexico City, so I went to the town. All this later became two photographs that will be in the show. One that shows the Tlaloc in the original site, the one that's in front of the Anthropology Museum, and then the other one that's in the town of Coatlinchan which is the replica. I traveled to those places and just used one photograph to be placed in front of the original stone, and then the other ones to inverse that, kind of bring back the original back to the town, if it is only in this way through a photograph.