The almena. After posting some pics from the remains of the Mexica Calmecac in downtown Mexico City, my friend Calpulli Xiuhcoatl sent me on a misión to do a re-shoot of the almena but closer (macro) and with minute details. This because in personal communication told me the importance of doing this gigantic piece (bigger and taller than me) as traditional ceramic is done. He knows his thing about heating ceramics, and here they are. This Almena I shot it at the Museum of Anthropology last Friday. And since it was mounted high, it was difficult to take macro but I managed, even with the ever watchful eyes of guards who were bewildered about what I was doing. These macro were the best I could take given the poor lighting museums have. Here is a quote from Calpulli Xiuhcoatl that literally shocked me about what is needed to heat and make this colosal pieces, and thus led me to take this cool macros: It is needed 12 pies cuadrados con una temperatura empesando de 120 grados a 900 grados por lo menos y que el incremento de calor sea gradual. Y solo asi quisa no se rompa o se deforme. Tiene que ser un calor constante y uniforme. Una de esa piezas llego aqui al museo de los Angeles y para mi, fue una de las piezas mas increhibles por el nivel de dificultad se tiene para hacerce, Y mucho mas para quemarse. Es una pieza demaciado dificil con la tecnologia moderna, ya no se diga con tecnologia antigua Eventhough it was not the same almena, this one was part too of the building complex at the Calmecac. There were more almenas with different shapes, but they were extremely high to take an accurate macro photo. If anyones interested in this topic, please jump in. BTW, once I looked it from Calpulli Xiuhcoatls perspective, yes it looks ceramic, the museum says its ceramic... so how did the Mexica accomplished the technical difficulties to make such a gigantic ceramic piece? Heres a more interesting question... how did they manage to make not one, or a doze, but hundreds of them (probably thousands counting the other public buildings and temples)?
Posted on: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 19:36:00 +0000
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