Provenance and Sources

The design comes from passages in a small design sketch (8.5x10 in, below left) made by the artist c. 1976. The sketch was a 6-piece collage made from fragments of smaller sketches. It has been a source for several pieces. At the time the sketch was made the artist had been strongly influenced by the form/feel of Mayan art and architecture.
The title is from the Popol Vuh, an account of the Mayan creation myth. Huracan (Heart of Sky), generator of wind, storms, fire and floods was one of the primordial deities active in the three attempts to create humanity. A Mayan statue below right is in the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. Stucco frieze from Placeres, Campeche. Early Classic period (c. 250 - 600 AD.

Project in-work below. Laser cutout in steel to be mounted on a lattice of mahogany strips, in turn mounted on an 8 foot oak slab with the inverse design routed on the back side.

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