Parallel to my work as an illustrator of novels, I work as a draftsman in another field, which is archaeological illustration. Here the rules are more rigid, what is not known cannot be represented and what is known is used by researchers to recreate their research. There are no inventions or artistic licenses, it is not an author's illustration, it is a scientific illustration. More than a profession for me it is a hobby, especially when I work in the field of the Mayans.
A culture that fascinates me since I was very young due to the amount of mysteries that surround it. The pyramids emerging from the jungle, the palatial rooms, the saunas and the lifestyle so sophisticated that in the years 600 - 900 of our Era the people of the elites wore it was not compatible with an environment as delicate and hostile as it is. the jungle, however they succeeded. How they did it?. No one knows yet, perhaps they organized socially and worked agriculture with rules and techniques that are unknown today.
Little by little new discoveries are coming to light that tell us that they were as human as we are, with their own identity, which little by little is being returned to the Mayan communities that survive today. Fray Diego de Landa, a Spanish friar who dedicated part of his life to studying the Mayan language, destroyed it on July 12, 1562 by burning all the codices in his possession, and in his desperation to Christianize the Mayan communities of Yucatan it annihilated at once. How many things would we know today? It is not known. The mystery fascinates, especially when it manifests itself in the form of beautiful works of art covered with moss and worn by erosion.
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Parallel to my work as an illustrator of novels, I work as a draftsman in another field, which is archaeological illustration. Here the rules are more rigid, what is not known cannot be represented and what is known is used by researchers to recreate their research. There are no inventions or artistic licenses, it is not an author's illustration, it is a scientific illustration. More than a profession for me it is a hobby, especially when I work in the field of the Mayans.
A culture that fascinates me since I was very young due to the amount of mysteries that surround it. The pyramids emerging from the jungle, the palatial rooms, the saunas and the lifestyle so sophisticated that in the years 600 - 900 of our Era the people of the elites wore it was not compatible with an environment as delicate and hostile as it is. the jungle, however they succeeded. How they did it?. No one knows yet, perhaps they organized socially and worked agriculture with rules and techniques that are unknown today.
Little by little new discoveries are coming to light that tell us that they were as human as we are, with their own identity, which little by little is being returned to the Mayan communities that survive today. Fray Diego de Landa, a Spanish friar who dedicated part of his life to studying the Mayan language, destroyed it on July 12, 1562 by burning all the codices in his possession, and in his desperation to Christianize the Mayan communities of Yucatan it annihilated at once. How many things would we know today? It is not known. The mystery fascinates, especially when it manifests itself in the form of beautiful works of art covered with moss and worn by erosion.
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