ST.GEN, 2019
ST.GEN marks a pivotal moment in Huacuja’s trajectory, where the exploration of circular forms becomes a generator of both structure and cosmology. Unlike the later monumental portals, here the scale is intimate—one meter in diameter—yet the work already contains the ambition of a world. The circle, treated as a living architecture, suggests both technological diagram and sacred mandala.
What anchors this apparent explosion is the Metatron’s Cube structure concealed beneath the composition. The geometric scaffolding provides balance and invisible order, aligning disparate elements into a coherent mandala. This tension between visible chaos and hidden symmetry resonates with ancestral practices of sacred geometry, where cosmic principles were encoded in mathematical diagrams. In STGEN, this structure operates almost like a digital operating system: a silent architecture that governs the proliferation of signs, avatars, and glyphs.
Iconographically, the work bridges pre-Hispanic symbology (glyph-like forms, cosmic references) with digital-age iconography (emojis, cartoon figures, neon-like accents). The Huichol chaquira beadwork reinforces the spiritual layer, rooting the piece in indigenous traditions of cosmopoiesis, while plexiglass and aerosol situate it firmly in contemporary visual culture. The result is an object that behaves simultaneously as a ritual mandala and a screen interface, proposing a hybrid spiritual-cybernetic cosmology.
Esteban Huacuja
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