Awaq Earrings, Kantu

Among the most striking images at Chavín de Huántar is a face that has never been forgotten: serpents flowing as hair, a gaze fierce and luminous at once, a presence felt before it is named. Scholars call it the Medusa carving. To the Chavín, it was simply the truth of what energy looks like when it moves through a living world.

The serpents rise in mirrored ascent - flow meeting form.

Two serpents rise. One axis holds. Everything between them is the teaching.