Mud's work was essential in the development of Mesoamerican cultures, not only because of its utilitarian value but also because of its sculptural value, loaded with symbolism as a mirror of the worldview of native peoples, always in close relationship with nature. It is in this synergy that Claudio Jerónimo manifests himself and shares his vocation as a faithful representative of an ancestral lineage that, from respect and communion between his hands with mud and fire, honors his roots and his land with a voice, his own language, and style. This symbiosis not only enriches the baggage of artistic creation as a human expression but also promotes and helps to get to know the people and the culture from which it is the result.

Within the framework of a collective and cultural exchange, where current artistic work needs conscious active voices, Claudio Jerónimo puts on the table an urgent discussion about the sustainability of vital balance and the indispensable role of bees to maintain said balance. Communication, relationships,s and reciprocal influences of the cycle that sustains life in the world, which in the service of "progress", has been affected by excessive and devastating human activity, reaching a point of no return. It is a call to action from within. Awakening of consciousness before the bleak panorama of the extinction of species intrinsically necessary for life. Once again we find synergy, symbiosis between the maker, nature, and the work of art. More than a political statement, it is a position that speaks from the earth and the interrelation between all beings. It is the "being" bee, "being" Earth, "being" world as the only opportunity to reconnect with what is essential, to understand and stop the environmental catastrophe, which will also end us if we do not locate ourselves within the confluences that unite us. instead of the ones that separate us.

With this installation, Claudio Jerónimo displaces us and deterritorializes us so that the bees can recover and recolonize the space to survive immortalized in the enameled form. They are witnesses and evidence at the same time. They are victims and saviors. They are homage and memory. mud and honey

Viridiana Gutierrez Tejeda