Between Current and the Echo

 

Formed in 2004, the Z’otz* Collective is a multi-disciplinary trio composed of Nahum Flores, Erik Jerezano and Ilyana Martinez.  Of Latin American heritage, the artists merge drawing, painting, ceramics, and animation to create playful, storytelling-driven works that blend tradition with contemporary experimentation.  Over time, the collective has developed a unique communal process, passing works between members to build layered, evolving compositions.

It is exemplary that three individuals who can work together to achieve great artworks.  It reinforces the path that group works can be equally creative.

One drawing that I showed at the beginning with the title - Digesting the Developer’s Plan captured my attention.  Working on building design for years, I had a lot of mixed feeling towards property developers.  While they can be the bread and butter for architects, the money power they exercise can have damning effects on societies.

Order of display on this post:

[1] Digesting the Developer’s Plan, 2025, drawing

[2] Messenger’s Dynamic, 2020, drawing

[3] Between the Current and the Echo, 2025

[4] Animation by Z’otz* Collective

[5] Demographic Symphony, 2025 Mural

Pictures at an exhibition...

 

...in Woodstock Art Gallery, Ontario.  Some excellent works are shown and a few selected from Visual Elements 67 Juried Exhibition.

Kim Wilkie, Metaphysical Blooms, 2024, acrylic paint, 

embroidery yarn on canvas

Gwenda Dieleman, Weighted #1, 2024, collage: graphite drawing, 

paste paper

Lisa Gerrard, Enigma Finale, 2024, acrylic and 

extra heavy gel on canvas

Kim Douglas Harrison, Port Stanley Days, 2024, oil on wood panel

Laura Bydlowska, Blue Valley, 2025, printmaking collage, gouache, 

ink and wood carving on wood substrate

Michael Browse, Crossing, 2025, oil and cold wax medium on canvas

Johnnene Maddison, Grandma's Cellar, 2024, acrylic and 

collage on canvas

Myself, Many Lives of load-bearing, 2025, 

cement, steel nails, embroidery, fabric particles and acrylic paints

Concurrently, two separate exhibitions in the gallery are:

Lyn Carter, The Pinks, 2025, six digital screens with looped animations

Jacquie Poole, Present in the Moment, paintings and other mixed 

media works spanning his career of many years

Trajectory on the making of ...

 

Click on the above for the complete article by myself on thesecretdoor.ca.

Review from Vincent Moleveld of onlinegallery.art

 

For those who are interested in the above review of my artworks, please click on above.

Museo MODO - The Rules of the Game

 

The artworks form a series of rare and intense interactions with a group of persons suffering from mental problems.  The occasion-as-exhibition organized by Museo MODO, Mexico City has been an education to viewers like me.  The therapeutic activity demonstrates that Mexico has allocated resources and care to minority sectors like this.  The experience also casts a different shade to a worn image that this country may be portrayed from the outside.

The Rules of the Game – Ludic art of psychiatric patients in confinement from Mar 19 to Aug 24, 2025 at Museo del Objeto del Objeto, Mexico City.