Duokrom

DUOKROM
In the ancient ruins of Copán, Honduras, a guide stopped and looked at the artist for a moment. Then he gave him a name.
Yax Cuc Mo. The first quetzal-guacamayo.
In the Mayan world, names were not labels. They were identifications — a recognition of what someone carried, what they were made of, what forces moved through them. The quetzal: iridescent, sacred, the bird whose feathers the gods wore, associated with renewal and the spiritual realm. The guacamayo: vivid, loud, earthbound, social, a creature of colour and community. Two birds so different they seem to belong to different worlds. One name that holds both — because the guide saw that both lived in the same being.
Duokrom is the vessel that carries that name.
The jarrón — the human being as container — is painted in the charged dialogue of green and blue that dominated those Honduran ruins: the green of the jungle pressing in from every side, the deep blue of a sky so clear it felt like it communicated something. Two chromatic forces, two energies, two aspects of a single life held in one form. The geometric patterns covering the vessel are the ancient language that has been arriving through the studio all along — but here they carry a specific charge, the mark of a specific recognition, a name given by someone who saw something the artist had not yet fully seen in himself.
Every collector who acquires this work acquires also the moment of that recognition — in a ruined city built by a civilisation that understood that what we call duality is simply the universe refusing to be less than everything at once.
A3 (29.7 × 42 cm) · Acrylic, ink, gesso and glue on wood panel · 2024 · One of a kind Presented in a black wood tray frame. Signed, titled and dated on the reverse. Certificate of Authenticity included.