Rajawalaq' / the great grandfathers, authorities of the night, protective, wander along the paths leading to the lake guided by dogs and tecolotes. Wisdoms merge and creatures discover their gifts. The midwife, the bonesetter, the healer and the timer..., ancestral practices, spiritual connections that Manuel Chavajay presents in the exhibition Kab'awil.

Processes such as talking to the mountain, recognizing that the stone has life, that the plant has life, that the tree has life, that the weaving connects with ancestral thought, with the Rujawal Ya' / the spirit of the lake. Thought must connect. We beings are Oqximtali / tied up, unable against each other when, from fragmentariness, each one wishes to move his oars in different directions.

However, through the process of creation Manuel is healing. Healing wounds from that moment when his mother put him under the bed due to a riot in the village, when he was only 3 months old, or that moment when his father was kidnapped and tortured when he was 9 years old. All this based on processes that nurture, on processes from spirituality and resistance.

And then, Manuel creates, creates ancestral ties through his works, through his Naqunn / Objects; he weaves memories with the Lu'uj Ya'/ [oars that] skim the lake; he bursts in with painting, the Chumanee / Restorer, the whitewasher who is also a painter, like Manuel who unconsciously sees himself reflected in him. In order to find the Kab'awil, those opposing forces that complement each other, that coexist and that present the ancestral poetics in the face of the globalized world.

— Juan Pablo González