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MEXICO. The Blood and The Rain. 

Yael Martinez 

In Guerrero, Mexico, ancestral Meso-Americans see blood and rain as sacred and still perform pre-Hispanic ceremonies: the Chicahualiztli concept refers to the force that circulates among humans, nature, and spirits. This project sought a way to document the rain rituals and sacrifices of these communities while honoring their ban on photography. We combined photography with drawing as a way to explore the layers of the physical and metaphysical — what we can feel but not see — in these rituals, without exposing or violating them. 

Yael Martinez 2017

MEXICO. Zitlala, Guerrero. 2017. Feathers in blood. 

Yael Martinez 2017

MEXICO. Metlatonoc, Guerrero. 2017. In contemporary Indigenous... 

Yael Martinez 2017

MEXICO. Guerrero. 2017. Landscape with feathers, men, musicians... 

Yael Martinez 2017

MEXICO. Zitlala, Guerrero. 2017. Tiger fither inside a cave (sacred... 

Yael Martinez 2017

MEXICO. Zitlala, Guerrero. 2017. A group of Zitlala Tigers perform... 

Yael Martinez 2017

MEXICO. Zitlala, Guerrero. 2017. A group of Zitlala Tigers dance... 

Yael Martinez 2017

MEXICO. Zitlala, Guerrero. 2017. A man in the Xomislo Hill offering... 

Yael Martinez 2017

MEXICO. Zitlala, Guerrero. 2017. A river in the montain of Guerrero.In... 

Yael Martinez 2017

MEXICO. Guerrero. 2017. From the myth of the creation of the... 

Yael Martinez 2017

MEXICO. Zitlala, Guerrero. 2017. A figure of San marcos (St.... 

Yael Martinez 2017

MEXICO. Zitlala, Guerrero. 2017. A member of the Nahua community... 

Yael Martinez 2017

MEXICO. Zitlala, Guerrero. 2017. In the rain patitions of the... 

Yael Martinez 2017

MEXICO. Zitlala, Guerrero. 2017. A cow was sacrificed for the... 

Yael Martinez 2017

MEXICO. Zitlala, Guerrero. 2017. A group of the nahua Comunity... 

Yael Martinez 2017

MEXICO. Zitlala, Guerrero. 2017. Portrait and tiger masks. 

Yael Martinez 2017

MEXICO. Zitlala, Guerrero. 2017. Viscera of animals offered in... 

Yael Martinez 2017

MEXICO. Zitlala, Guerrero. 2017. A Nahua member of the comunity... 

Yael Martinez 2017

MEXICO. Zitlala, Guerrero. 2017. Offering to the cross and the... 

Yael Martinez 2017

MEXICO. Zitlala. 2017. Women of the Zitlala community participate... 

Yael Martinez 2017

MEXICO. Zitlala, Guerrero. 2017. A tiger from Zitlala getting... 

Yael Martinez 2017

MEXICO. Zitlala, Guerrero. 2017. This image is used symbolically... 

Yael Martinez 2017

MEXICO. Guerrero. December 31, 2020. The cultivation of the poppy... 

Yael Martinez 2017

MEXICO. Guerrero. January 13, 2017. In the mountains near Guerrero,... 

Yael Martinez 2017

MEXICO. Guerrero. 2017. Chicken feathers.

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