CARLOS SANDOVAL MENDOZA



Leporinas

Germany, 2021

Ink on paper, ca. 15x15cm on A4 acid-free paper


 

Coatlicue's head is split. Two serpents rise and face each other — forming, together, a single face. It is a harelip on a cosmic scale: the cleft that should not be whole, the opening that generates rather than closes.

This series is an act of AI archaeology — the exploration of earlier versions of portrait-generation systems whose behavior differed markedly from today's deterministic tools, and a fictional Mexican archeology, where Coatlicue (first drawing) was an Universal Leporina.