Glyph

This symbol for our new house was designed by Kurt Mueller. It will be inserted into the facade of our new home and represents the sheltering aspects of architecture (my profession; the lower section), the weaving of life events (Lea’s is a weaver; the warp/weft section in the middle) and growth (the Henequen plant–native to the Yucatan and at the center of decades of prosperity for the peninsula; the upper portion.) The red (rojo indio) represents the stability of mother earth. The combination of an image and the embedded red background is typical of the traditional symbols used historically for districts in the city of Merida (see example of elephant). By combining our personal story with a long tradition of designating districts in the city we are able to identify our house without a made up name…and leave the source to the visitor’s imagination. Lea and I like keep things a bit mysterious.