Zen, 2023
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Zen belongs to a body of work in Huacuja’s practice: compact, hybrid entities that oscillate between relic, idol, and toy. Built through an intuitive and playful process, they carry the weight of myth while remaining porous to everyday symbols and personal memories.
In Zen (2013), the crown of amethyst crystals frames a hidden Lego figurine—a direct nod to the artist’s own childhood in the 1990s, when building with Lego bricks became a first exercise in world-making. This gesture echoes in later works such as Persistent Lvl (2019) and d_iOS (2018), where fragments of pop culture are absorbed into more complex cosmologies.
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Seen in Huacuja’s trajectory, Zen foreshadows the monumental portals of later years. In its compact scale, it distills the artist’s cosmology into an intimate body: archaic yet futuristic, playful yet talismanic. The work stands as a self-contained presence, while quietly signaling the larger mythology that continues to expand through his practice.
Esteban Huacuja
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