A tihu is cut from cottonwood root — a tree that hunts water, chosen by people whose year turns on rain — then chalked with kaolin and painted in ground mineral pigment. Every mask is a map: yellow north, blue-green west, red south, white east, black the nadir.

This system takes that literally. The page is the smoke-darkened wall the dolls hang against. Colour arrives in flat, hard-edged fields split by a black keyline, never blended, never glossed. Type is the text face of the Fewkes plates that documented the subject in 1903.