$4,000 USD

Artwork Description

Maruch Sántiz Gómez’s series ‘Beliefs’ pairs photographs with texts written by the artist in Tzotzil, her native language, capturing the poetry of her people and their ways of inhabiting the world. "En tiempos pasados el día de la siembra de maíz la comida debería ser el pescado, dicen que para que venga fuerte la raíz de la milpa y que no se caiga cuando pase el viento." / "Li ta vo’ne k’alal yorail xa ta x’ovolajike, ja’ no’ox ta sa’ sti’iik li choye yo’ la lek xch’i li chobtike xchi’uk lek tsots yibel k’alal mi xtal ik’e, mu aniluk ta xlom." / "In times past, on the day of planting corn, the food should be fish, they said, so that the roots of the cornfield grow strong and do not fall when the wind blows."