Codex Xolotl, Chimalpopoca in Huitzilopochtli ritual attire
A poncho is an outer garment designed to keep the body warm. A rain poncho is made from a watertight material designed to keep the body dry from the rain. Ponchos have been used by the Native American peoples of the Andes since pre-Hispanic time, from places now under the territory of Bolivia, Peru, Chile and Ecuador and are now considered typical South American garments.
From the book " THE INNER BIRD " , anatomy and evolution, By Gary W. Kaiser, p.137
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" the gentleman suit is one of those overlooked but enduring symbols of modern civilization. for almost four hundred years it has been held up by artists, philosophers and critics as evidence of humanity's unceasing and transformative search for perfection.
thought its fitness for purpose, its sleek elegance and its social grace it has become a perfect example of evolutionary theory and democratic utopianism made material. "
Roman Opałka dedicated his life to attempting to represent an unmeasurable phenomenon – the passing of time – lending it visual form by using numbers as the basis of a continuous and potentially infinite sequence, which corresponded to the duration of his own existence. He began working on his program in 1965, the year he started to count from 1 to infinity, painting a constant progression of numbers on canvas with a fine-tipped brush until all the space was used up. Each time he completed a canvas he would start where he had left off on a new one from. Opałka methodically followed his program day after day, until his death put an end to his undertaking, leaving the last painting unfinished.
In 1968, he decided to accompany each Détail with a photographic self-portrait in black and white which was taken at the end of each painting session.
In chose to put these photographs as an reference because if found it interesting how the artist tried to maintain his facial expression, the distance from the lens, the background and his shirt, in order to highlight the “sculptural” transformations of his face caused by the passing of time, which is the real subject of this series.
And the element that concerned me the most is his facial flesh that is reducing threw time. The appearances of new shapes and the deconstruction of the old ones.