Mazatl

Mazatl is a Mexican printmaker and muralist based in San Cristóbal de las Casas; his name means "deer" in Nahuatl. He works mainly in large-scale woodcut, pasted up or repainted by brush on walls, in stark black and white, with a vocabulary of Mesoamerican symbols in which animals are spiritual beings as much as characters. His images deal with land, death, memory and the movements he works alongside. He belongs to the Justseeds cooperative and to the Animal Power Crew, whose initials APC sign his walls.