Xolo psychopomp
Hand-carved amber, 2020
Carved in San Cristóbal de las Casas.
Amber contains suspended biological matter. The material holds time in a literal sense.
The xolo, or Mexican hairless dog, is a psychopomp in Aztec mythology, associated with the passage between worlds.
The form emerges through subtraction. The process is slow, and irreversible. The object sits between relic and figure and serves as a record of my experience studying in Mexico.