Transparencies in Time

About the Work

My poem has been rejected to previous exhibitions because here in the States, Indigenous lore and Native American iconography has historically been taboo or made invisible as the original peoples were eradicated from the land as the languages and peoples were destroyed. When it is accepted, it is used simply as examples of concrete poetry. My message lies at the root of literacy: because the U.S. government suppresses critical thinking in reading, the end result is upon us. Technology has dictated what its populace should know.

About the Artist

J D Trejo-Maya is a remnant of the Nahuatlacah oral tradition a tonalpouhque mexica, a commoner from the lowlands from a time and place that no longer exist. Born and raised in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico, he later immigrated to the United States in 1988. His inspirations include Netzahualcoyotl, Humberto Ak’abal, Ray A. Young Bear, James Welch, and Juan Rulfo. His poetry and art have been exhibited in galleries and published in journals based in the UK, US, Spain, India, Australia, Argentina, Germany, Ukraine, South Africa, and Venezuela. While in a ceremony with Chololo medicine men in the Tule River Reservation he dreamt this written prophecy…