In his series WINDOW ZAA, Mexican artist Sabino Guisu (b. Oaxaca 1986) reimagines the wall as a symbolic window into another reality.

An Impressive wooden frame is shaped in the geometric language of the ancient MITLA motifs of the Mitla pyramid in Oaxaca.
WINDOW ZAA refers to Bën Zaa—the Zapotec expression for the people of Oaxaca, meaning ‘People of the Clouds’. This expression refers to the Zapotecs’ deep connection to Oaxaca’s cloud-covered mountains and to the spiritual significance of clouds. Clouds are associated with the heavens, rain, fertility, and the ancestors and a connection between the earthly and divine realms.

Sabino Guisu’s wallpieces are conceived like a TV screen into the sky. For the artist the works invite him to tune into a different kind of reality: one that looks beyond the everyday and towards the clouds, and the imagination. The windows open a contemplative space—a window into nature and memory.

The painted compositions merge ancestral symbolism with contemporary expression. They become portals. The viewer is drawn into the picture and the frame, encouraged to pause, reflect, and reconnect with a world where the sacred and the everyday quietly coexist.