The stones in Antonio Pichillá's work are essential; they play significant religious, cartographic, and historical roles in ancient Mayan practices. They are living stones, representing ancestral entities with inherited energy. Once obliterated by Spanish colonizers, these stones have regained importance as healing and symbolic objects. While those in museums "are trapped, caged, living a cold existence [...]." The ones presented in Pichillá's art continue to tell their living stories. For his series Contemporary Archeology, Antonio refers to Humberto Akabal's famous poem: "It's not that the stones are mute; they just remain silent."
