A simulation of a fish with open mouth representing a knot or a flower on antique codex.
It has similarities with the symbols "acalt" which means cane and "quiahuitl" means rain, both also symbols also calendric. The artist made it into a three dimension figure that didn't exist like that in the pre-Hispanic period.
Heriberto Juárez was a visual artist of national and international renown. He sculpts, paints and engraves but is widely known because for his sculptures. Juárez work has pre-Hispanic influence and different forms of abstraction, using humans and animals as subjects of his work. Heriberto Juárez is the artist with more pieces in UDLAP Art Collection.
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