From the bark of the jonote tree —known as majé in the Chinantec language— a fiber is extracted that was traditionally used by the community to weave bags for carrying corn and squash harvests. These bags have since been replaced by plastic ones. Eligio Felipe Juan is one of the few people who still knows how to extract the fiber and use it for weaving. Miguel Cinta Robles approached him and his family —who live in Cerro Mirador— to learn the process.

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Various tools help us identify, understand, and bring into the realm of signs the chemical and electrical processes in the brain that shape our internal state. Entering the gallery at PALMA, formerly known as Proyecto Arte, reminds me of two devices stored in the archive of my childhood memories. The first, rudimentary in its technological apparatus and graphic in essence, is the wheel of emotions. The second is a device that artificially induces mystical or religious experiences by stimulating specific areas of the brain. This instrument (from the eighties) was called the “God Helmet.”

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