La Euca

Client

Personal Project

role

Environment/ CG Generalist

Collaborator(S)

year

2025

La Euca is a personal project inspired by the charged intersections that define CDMX—a city where layered histories, cultural ruptures, and lingering ghosts inhabit every street and structure. This environment imagines an amplified version of that city; one shaped by the reverberations of the past, the contradictions of incomplete narratives, and the lingering weight of unresolved histories. *Responsible for all aspects of the project (Excluding some props sourced from Kitbash and Big/Medium/Small)

DESCRIPTION

The wailing of the past, present, and future is momentarily drowned out by the patter of rain on cracked concrete. Rain, the cleanser, the solvent struggles to wash away the sins that clog the drains and that fester, forgotten in the gutters and cobblestone roads of the old city. A spectre from the past looms amongst the fog, no longer sheathed in the armor of a conquistador, but disembodied into an assortment of icons, logos, and glowing hedonistic delights. The sound of church bells is hollowed out by the omnipresent, electrified hum of neon signs offering the body and blood of “Our” dear lord and savior. Huitzilopochtli’s divine serpent weeps, haunted by the iron-clad steeds and powder kegs that petrified it into a stony remnant of what once was. Stone Remnants. What once was. They weigh heavily on the sinking city. The blood-soaked soil that filled the dense canals, caves, and weakened below the surface. However, no weight is insurmountable. For it is on the backs of the exploited, the wretched, that this ancient land remains afloat. And though some backs may bend and buckle, it is the ones who rise up beside them that grant a momentary gasp for them to rise up once again. The concrete city cracks, and with it so does the piercing stone from which the golden eagle is perched on.

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