Trenzando (Braiding)

cotton thread, plywood, Guatemalan quetzales, U.S. dollars

Nodding towards the long, violent links between U.S. and Guatemalan histories, and the economics of genocide. Traditional weaving braids, reminiscent of human hair, are organized in a grid of twenty (and balanced on wooden supports. In the Mayan system of numbers, twenty is one of the numbers that is commonly used to represent “a body.”  

 2017.

Photos: Adɐm Johnson