Kuxa Suun
Celeste Byers & Aaron Glasson
This is not only a sculpture. It is an acoustic chamber.
Listen to the acoustic ritual and enter the chamber with intention.
Enter the head, then listen from inside.
Unlock the story of Kuxa Suun and follow a short guided meditation inside the acoustic chamber. This stop is not only something to see. It is something to enter, hear and feel with your own voice.
The story of Kuxa Suun
The origin of the image, the artists, the book, and the idea of memory rising from the earth.
Kuxa Suun is one of Holistika's most emblematic pieces: a monumental face emerging from the earth.
Its origin began with an image from a book shared by Tulum Art Club with the artists Celeste Byers and Aaron Glasson. On one of the first pages, a head appeared rising from the ground. That image became the seed for the piece.
The work connects with the idea of memory buried beneath the earth: knowledge, language and wisdom protected through time, carried by the body, the land and the people who remained.
But the piece is not only symbolic. It is physical. You can enter it.
Inside, the head becomes an acoustic chamber. The opening in the crown lets in air and light, and the voice begins to move differently.
- The head emerging from the earth.
- The opening in the crown, where air, light and sound enter.
- The shift between seeing it from outside and entering it from within.
- The way sound changes once you are inside.
- The structure itself, built before the image was painted.
- The feeling of the head as a guardian of the path.
Built by many hands
This piece was created through collaboration. Celeste Byers and Aaron Glasson painted the vision, but the structure was built by the Holistika team, with Maya builders and people from nearby communities. For Tulum Art Club, they are essential artists of the piece. They gave the work its body before it received its image.
Find your tone
Enter the head. Remove your headphones. Stand still in the center. Make a soft hum or om. Do not force it. Listen for the point where the sound begins to move around you.
The archive may include the Maya-language video, process images, construction documentation and the story behind the book that inspired the piece.