Coatlicue by Rory Phillips
This is one of two illustrations I did for an art jam at Superpunch. It is inspired by Neil Gaiman’s brilliant novel American Gods. I was really drawn to a minor reference to Coatlicue, (the Aztec Earth Mother Godess) who after The Aztecs were conquered, evolved in some respects into the Virgin of Guadalupe. To represent her, I wanted to blend the Aztec and Catholic iconography in a way that reflected the multifaceted visual nature the gods displayed at certain times in the novel.
