Triburón

Some Work in Progress pictures

We went to the Museo Cabañas in the neighborhood of Tlaquepaque in Guadalajara, Mexico on my birthday in 2019. I was captivated by the painting below, "TSICURI II", 1968 oil in canvas by Tomás Coffeen. After we got home, I wanted to recreate it in the physical world. Years later, after a trip to Mexico City (and starting ADHD meds...), we went to a local second hand craft supply store and hardware store and bought the materials necessary. It wasn't until I was building it that I realized what the design reminded me of - the Tree of Life. I had seen the design in various media (i.e. Neon Genesis Evangelion) and this seemed like an indigenous representation of the diagram.