Ancestral Breath — artwork #16382 by Mazatl · Le Locle, Switzerland

graffiti engraving gravure chien dog animal forêt squelette

Ancestral Breath — Street art by Mazatl in Le Locle

Photo by Pierre Jeanmonod

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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 alongs…

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Pierre Jeanmonod

Added 05/09/2026

On the gable of a garage, a large black and white engraving heightened with gold: a wolf-like dog stops at the edge of the fir trees, lips curled and ears pricked, while a golden snake coils above him. Below the ground line the image flips into negative and shows the same animal's skeleton in the earth, tangled with roots and a white lightning bolt. A 37 sq m mural painted with a brush in 2022 for Le Locle's exomusée, the second panel of its smugglers' dogs trilogy: this one imagines what the animal, free for a moment, hears of the forest and of its ancestors.

The artwork Ancestral Breath is of type graffiti. You can admire it in the city of Le Locle in Switzerland, more precisely here: Rue des Envers 8, 2400 Le Locle, Switzerland.

This graffiti is also tagged as: engraving, gravure, chien, dog, animal, forêt, squelette.

Find all artworks by the artists who contributed to its creation by clicking on their name: Mazatl

The photo was published on 05-09-2026 by Pierre Jeanmonod.

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