Superb parade of Mayan Indians led by a birdman in a rising landscape with, in perspective, the view of a lake and a town in the Central American altiplano. On the right-hand side, a slightly pinkish white wall in full light structures the composition, in absolute contrast to the exuberance of the feathers and the colourful mask of the man climbing the path in the shade, from which a Mayan statue emerges.

Two women in the centre of the canvas, wrapped in their colourful traditional clothing, their eyes half closed, bear witness to the silent vitality of a culture of life that struck the artist during her 1973 trip to the Maya country in Mexico and Guatemala.

This painting was titled in homage to the Guatemalan writer Miguel Angel Asturias, who was buried two years earlier in Paris in 1974, his second homeland, and who was the promoter of Magical Realism where plants, animals, otherness, identity and culture participate in the unity of the world, a position that could not leave indifferent an artist who had so often gone to discover human civilizations.

The characteristic hooked nose and black eyes of the writer’s face can be seen in the features of the feathered Indian mask in the foreground.