9″ x 12″-ink on paper
Or La Noche Triste references the events of July 30th, 1520,and the bloody massacre that was to signal the end of the greater Aztec dynasty in Mexico.
So here you have the Spanish Conquistador-Hernan Cortes standing valiant above the sprawling Lake Texcoco below, as the towering specter of the Aztec Goddess-Coyolxauhqui-casts an ominous shadow-all severed limbs and lunar skull,she’s a symbol of the brutal carnage and turmoil in the forming of the “New World.”
It’ll be on display this coming weekend for The Sharpie Art Show at La Bodega gallery.
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