Dive-Bombing Snakes, 2023-2024

Colored pencil and marker on paper
in metal frame    
50 x 50 x 3 cm 

After Dive Bomber I and II, 2024
Turutututu-Ton-Tonrom-Ton-Ton, 2024

Fresco painting on steel structure
41 x 90 x 6 cm

The series Dive-Bombing Snakes and the frescoes After Dive Bomber I and II and Turutututu-Ton-Tonrom-Ton-Ton take as their starting point the mobile mural Dive Bomber and Tank by José Clemente Orozco, which was first presented on May 14, 1940, in the exhibition Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. In the preparatory sketches for this mural, which are preserved by MoMA, there is an image of a plane and a snake, where the snake brings down the airplane. Although the final mural only suggests serpentine forms, the preparatory work clearly shows snakes destroying the flying ships. This scene, of planes being brought down by snakes, is repeated multiple times in the series with different models of planes used during World War II, referencing the military insignia created by Walt Disney as various strategies of wartime propaganda.

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