Pico y Elote - Corn and Industry furniture design a relationship forged of need

a relationship forged of need both craven and exalted

Basel und Braunschweig vertraut

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Artist Carmen Winant draws from over a dozen personal

Pico y Elote - Corn and Industry furniture design a relationship forged of needWith Jos Esparza Chong Cuy as curator, readers are taken on a guided journey through the artists work, focusing on two concepts that function as metaphors throughout the journey: Cultivation and harvesting and industrialization processes. Reflexively, Ortega contrasts these concepts to tell an alternative story of the Mayan myth of creation where corn is the origin of humanity to reach the globalized post industrial era and the chaos caused by longed