Alejandra V. speaking:

What I am going to give you is a piece of antique ceramic from prehispanic era and a piece of arrow in obsidian. We live in Xochimilco and in the mountains we can find a lot of fragments of the pieces, prehispanic pieces.

Since we were young we would take walks with our father. We would go to the mountain and once we were on top, in the field, we would search. It was a hobby to look for parts of prehispanic pieces. We would always do that, since we were really young and as of now. These are the two last fragments that I found on the mountain.

It’s a nice present because it has always been special to live here, so far from the city. This is the kind of thing that makes it special to live here because it’s something different. You feel a little far from the world, more in the nature. It was like making archeological search. It was very entertaining and I still feel that at this moment. We like to go once in a while. It’s like the price for going up the mountain, to find these is like a price for having done it. I have my collection of these pieces. We found them over many years and we have lost a lot of them because we were not giving them much importance in the past but now I keep them.

What is special about this is that they are the last ones I found.

We have been collecting them since I was young. We would bring them here and keep them in a container. We collected, collected, collected…. One day, no so long ago, I decided to gather them together because we were losing them, and to keep them in a box and clean them a little, because they were full of dirt. And the next time I find more, I will collect them here to make the collection bigger.