Amictlan: Living Ancestry is an exploration of memory, transformation, and the enduring relationship

between art, cultures from the Cem-Anahuac (mesoamerica) and the natural world. Through

pyrography on reclaimed wood, bone, conk mushroom, and hand-etched metal, artist Amictlan

reveals the stories held within each material. Fire becomes both a creative tool and a symbolic

force, uncovering patterns that speak to ancestry, spirit, and the interconnectedness of all living

beings.

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Complementing these original works is a carefully curated collection of ceremonial and cultural

objects associated with the living traditions of the Mexica-Chichimeca dance. Drums, wooden

masks, regalia, ceramic flutes, whistles, ocarinas, and historical artifacts are presented not merely

as objects of the past, but as expressions of an enduring cultural heritage that continues to be

practiced, honored, and transmitted across generations.

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Together, the artwork and cultural collection invite visitors into a dialogue between contemporary

artistic expression and ancestral knowledge. The exhibition offers a space where fire, earth, wood,

bone, metal, sound, movement and ceremony converge—revealing that ancestry is not confined to

history, but lives through creativity, ritual, and the relationships we cultivate with the natural world.

Living ancestry is not only what we inherit—it is what we choose to honor, share , and carry

forward.

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