My image of Maya exile is a broken chain. One end of the chain remains tightly wrapped around the trunk of a large tree standing in a healthy forest. This tree represents ancestral land, community, and the sacred forest of Totonicapán that Lucía Ixchíu risked her life to protect. The other end of the chain is snapped, the metal frayed and broken. Below the broken chain, a single set of footprints leads away from the forest into the distance Mehr sehen