HEAD OF AI APAEC Expressive Oil and watercolor on MDF

Oil and watercolor on MDF

The use of electrical cabling to to reuse something deemed broken

from my mothers film photo archives

The sides I have colored with a crayon to create texture and colour

The work is part of the Cells series

HEAD OF AI APAEC Expressive Oil and watercolor on MDFCeramic Interpretation of the godly deity Ai Apaec. Prominently depicted in archaeological vessel findings from Peru dating to the Moche period between 100 700 A. D. Represented as a man with the powers of the feline, the bird and the snake. On his quest to retrieve the sun and subsequently restore order in the natural world, he was decapitated and fell into the depths of the underworld. A modern take on a universal tale of the hero. Fully finished in