These pictures catalog what caught my eye most recently at el Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City. I feel a certain guilt for failing to have done the work here of distinguishing between cultures, artists, recreations and originals. But I wanted to preserve the feeling of a museum, where the past arrives in a jumble. We confront the past in photographs, often, and in artifacts when we have the chance. The present regards the past in an effort to shape the future, most often, but sometimes it is good to simply sit with the fact that to be human and to be here has been a fact for a long time, longer than we can experience, in one museum trip, in one lifetime.
Mordecai Martin, Writer 