José Sherwood González
Artist researcher · Manchester & México
sherwoodjose@gmail.com · ORCID · Instagram · Sketchfab
Ritual Return: the Amoxtli Tezcatlipoca
A practice-based PhD on the Book of the Smoking Mirror (Amoxtli Tezcatlipoca or Codex Fejérváry-Mayer) — renaming, reimagining and returning it through facsimiles, ceremony, 3D modelling and intercultural workshops between Puebla, Liverpool and Manchester. PhD thesis, School of Digital Arts, Manchester Metropolitan University (2021-2025).
The project · Explore the 3D model · World Museum
Breaking Tezcatlipoca
A graphic ethnography of Mexican family myths. MA thesis project; AVA Award commendation, EASA 2021. Read it
Way(s) We Remember
Graphic ethnography of Mexican kinship and intergenerational storytelling.
One of Those Family Stories You Hear
Special issue published in Studies in Comics on family and conflict in graphic narratives (2021). Read article
Together They Cross The Border
Interactive comic published in Trajectoria (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan) Read the Interactive comic
Gig Work: Courier Stories
Leverhulme-funded comics commission on platform food delivery, exhibited in Manchester, Cluj-Napoca and Lyon. See the comics
Film & Sound
Festival-screened films and soundworks
Vernacular Excavations · (Per)sonified Letters · What Stops Us From Being Well?
José Sherwood González 