IXCHALA

Ixchalá is the Goddess of the Seas, imagined by my sister, the godmother of the Océano collection.

Her name has roots in Mesoamerican languages: “Ix,” in Nahuatl, means face or soul, while “chalá” poetically evokes the sound of the sea and sacred stones like jade (chalchi).

This artwork now holds a special place in my collection, symbolizing deep peace, the fluidity of emotions, as well as the need for protection, the healing power of water, and its strength of resilience.

Ixchala invites us to feel, from within, what invisible and fragile marine habitats endure, caught in an overwhelming frenzy from the outside.

“ Soy alma del agua.
Soy Ixchalá.
Paz en lo profundo, vaivén de libertad.
Soy alma del agua, soy verdad.

No es solo un rostro…
es el silencio que me envuelve cuando me canso de gritar.
Es el color de mis días buenos, el eco de mis noches duras.
Es la sal de mis lágrimas.

Soy agua…”

Diana Gomez Baranda

Collection Océano : “For the Oceans to Breathe Again”

A visual tribute to the beauty, richness, and fragility of the seas: a call to awareness and action to protect the oceans, an essential condition for their survival, and therefore for that of humanity.
Mythical gods embody our contradictions, our attachments, our hopes. Their faces are the symbolic guardians of a marine world in peril.