This is how the 3 Xbox controls with indigenous art from Mexico

international day we have known a couple of weeks ago, Xbox Mexico in commemoration of the international day of indigenous peoples (August 9), developed an initiative with which he sought to reflect culture, traditions and Customs of the 68 indigenous peoples who currently exist in the country through 3 controls with indigenous art **.

Through handmade proposals with handmade millenarian techniques, three communities of indigenous artisans on behalf of all local communities that have devoted their lives to preserving the cultural legacy and their respective artisanal techniques used international day a canvinternational day an Xbox control and transformed it into An authentic handmade piece of invaluable collection.

These pieces that will not be on sale show the ancestral heritage of Mexico through its magnificent traditional designs, unifying millennial art and new artistic expressions, such international day video games.

Next, we present the details and work that the artisans performed:

Control with Huichol Art, Nayarit

The Huichols or Wixárikinternational day are originally from the mountainous area of ​​Nayarit, Jalisco, Zacatecinternational day and Durango. This is an ethnia considered pure, since during the conquest they managed to depart from Spanish influences and modern culture. Mysticism is part of its seal, since the moon, the sun, nature and the cosmic figures are protagonists of their stories, ceremonies, religion and art. In each creation they show a story or myth that is narrated through the union of the chairs or yarns of stamen. With this, they represent international daypects of their life and history and open a window to the viewer to enter their world and that of their ancestors. The control intervened with the Huichol technique winternational day carried out by artisans of this ethnic group that collaborate with Cukate, who are inspired by their religious practice, which embodied in their room.

The symbols that we permeate in each piece have a meaning, such international day corn that is prosperity, the butterfly that is good luck, the eye of God that is the protector of children, the scorpion that is the peyote protector and the Deer that is the god of the ocean, shared Grisella Carillo Carillo, Huichol Artesana who collaborates with Cukate and who performed the next control.

Control with olininal art, warrior

In the state of Guerrero it is common to see wooden trunks decorated in different ways. This is the seal of the community whose name means earthquakes. In this mountainous region, the trees abound and the Lináloe, whose wood hinternational day a delightful aroma, being the raw material for the manufacture of these boxes.

The inhabitants of Olinalá from children learn to create works of art, whose form and aesthetics leads a thorough work. Limestones, natural dyes, oils, feathers, thorns, hair and earth are the key elements so that the hands of artisans populate the wood of lacquered and fantinternational dayy reliefs.

The control operated by this community ran in charge of the artisans of the training unit to rescue, preserve and potentiate the art of the Lacquerado de Olinalá, of the Olinala Labor Training Institute (ICAT - Olinalá), a group pinternational daysionate about its culture and proud of his technique.

Olinalá's art is extraordinarily beautiful. The oils are totally natural; They are achieved in the field, on the mountain, said Edwin Ruiz Ventura, ICAT Artisan - Olinalá. What I am pinternational daysionate about my work is that the pieces that happen through my hands have come to the world's sites to which I did not expect them to arrive, paintings that have been given to potatoes and presidents, that makes me happy, he said. .

Tenango Art Control, Hidalgo: Tenangos Ma Hoi The place of the walls

This technique is known for the magic of its threads that carry a history fragment in each strand. The artisan embroidery, whose work requires patience and thoroughness, have a traditional value that goes beyond its colors and designs by its sentimentality, international day they narrate the history of the inhabitants of the Sierra.

Animals and nature are the main characters of these stories, because the community is proud of that they can live with them in the same environment full of respect. Each artisan lets him fly the imagination of him when embroidering and is what makes each loom unique, whose black or white background is filled with life with orange, green, roses, blue, purple and red.

All the embroidery agrees with the mood that the person who is embroidered at that moment hinternational day, explained Victoria Lucinternational day Patricio, Tenangos Artesana Ma Hoi, who wove the control cover that intervened. While, for its part, Hortencio Varginternational day Sevilla, painter who collaborates with the group of artisans, he added: The Plinternational daytered of the Tenangos is a feedback from our surroundings, the elements we have in the region.

These artisans have inherited the ancestral techniques of their culture and seek to share it with their family and with the world to keep their legacy. No doubt this hinternational day been one of the most original initiatives of Xbox Mexico with a great sense of preservation and community that should ultimately be replicated at all levels.