Colossal Head 5 from San Lorenzo
Its face, unrelated to the lie of the circumventing world, seems to behold solely truth. The lines of shade that cut his lids come to reinforce the squinting of the irises, which make it possible to look at the truth. The frown bulks with power between the brows.
In the mouth, the ascending curve that moves the lower lip, mandates the position and shape of the other. But this, revealing the essential sense of the face, is meticulously carved into two separate portions by a profound cleavage. Thus is engendered a double space destined to hold the double ophidian presence.
Look now at the helmet. In its smooth frontal part, at each of its sides, the claw of a rapacious bird fixes its nails, making us guess the presence of the whole bird, powerful to pick up, in its flight, the complete head, integrating it to superior levels of being and knowledge. The Colossal Head number 5 of San Lorenzo reveals itself as the nucleus irradiating with energy, concentrated to the extreme.
Now: remember that, according to the already propounded Mexican version of the genesis of the universe, from the chaos of uncreated waters springs by itself the creative word, constituted by the trinity of man and two serpents transmuted into serpents.
Thus, in this head three of the four natures mentioned are clearly represented; in it would be missing, as is missing in all the rest and also in the other faces both naturalistic and stylized, the fourth: the feline.
Observe and turn around the Colossal Head 9 of San Lorenzo
