Día de los Muertos, 2015. Day of the Dead

 

La Noche de los Altares. En el contexto del Día de los Muertos, 2015, en Santa Ana. Hermosa celebración en Orange County, con más esfuerzo que en Olvera St en Los Angeles.

The Night of the Altars. In the context of the Day of the Dead, 2015, in Santa Ana. Wonderful celebration in Orange County, with much effort than Olvera St in Los Angeles. 

My shots last Saturday, November 7th.

From the Aztec Codices 7. De los Codices Aztecas 7

From the Aztec Codices 6. De los Codices Aztecas 6

Digital manipulation of part of the first page of Codex Mendoza, depicting the founding of Tenochtitlan.

From the Aztec Codices 5. De los Codices Aztecas 5

From the Aztec Codices 4. De los Codices Aztecas 4

From the Aztec Codices 3. De los Codices Aztecas 3

From the Aztec Codices 2. De los Codices aztecas 2

From the Aztec Codices 1. De los codices aztecas 1

With this digital manipulation of one of so many images from the Aztec Codices, I´d like to open a new series. Have you ever imagined how archaeological art would appear today if using digital tools?

So, here I am transforming, disturbing, manipulating, re-coloring the ancient Aztec images. More is coming in the following posts. Take it as an exercise of color and morphology, there is no lack of respect for them, but a respectful contemporary homage.

In this one, the background was also changed to give it a more abstract appearance.

Aztec codices (Nahuatl: Mēxihcatl āmoxtli [meː'ʃiʔkatɬ aː'moʃtɬi] are books written by pre-Columbian and colonial-era Aztecs. These codices provide some of the best primary sources for Aztec culture. The pre-Columbian codices differ from European codices in that they are largely pictorial; they were not meant to symbolize spoken or written narratives.The colonial era codices not only contain Aztec pictograms, but also Classical Nahuatl (in the Latin alphabet), Spanish, and occasionally Latin. Although there are very few surviving pre-conquest codices, the tlacuilo (codex painter) tradition endured the transition to colonial culture; scholars now have access to a body of around 500 colonial-era codices.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_codices