Javier Senosiain: Coata III

Javier Senosiain is the leading exponent of Arquitectura Orgánica (organic architecture), a movement that explores the kinship between buildings and living things. His buildings have a creaturelike vitality and are often covered in skins of polychrome glass tile set into reinforced concrete. Similar mosaic techniques have been used to decorate Mexican architecture since the Spanish colonial era. For Ground/work 2025, Senosiain has created a giant snake whose coils dip in and out of Schow Pond, seeming to rise from the unseen depths of the water. The sculpture animates the landscape, summoning the spirit of the feathered serpent Quetzalcóatl: the Aztec god that presides over water and wind, agriculture and craft, and embodies the force of creation itself.

Ground/work 2025—Javier Senosiain

Javier Senosiain (b.1948, Mexico) discusses Coata III, an animate structure in polychrome glass mosaic, rooted in Mesoamerican and exemplifying the power of pure imagination.