Flores voladoras

Lance Wyman, the American graphic designer, designed Flores voladoras (Flying Flowers), a Talavera helmet, from a premise, which the workshop that made it, Uriarte Talavera in Puebla, gives on its page for the piece and the newspaper El Tiempo Monclova attributes to him: “Si los aztecas, que crearon la celebración del Día de los Muertos, tuvieran coches de carreras de F1, los relatos de sus códices tendrían dibujos de muchas flores voladoras” (if the Aztecs, who created the celebration of the Day of the Dead, had F1 race cars, the stories in their codices would have drawings of many flying flowers).

In 2024, the year it turned 200, Uriarte Talavera made ten such helmets for the Formula 1 Mexico City Grand Prix, each designed by an artist, made with an artisan and standing for one team; Wyman's was made with the artisan Grettel Rodríguez Barragán and stands for Oracle Red Bull Racing. The workshop says the project set out to bring to light two of Mexico's most complex and syncretic craft traditions, “la talavera y el Día de Muertos” (Talavera and the Day of the Dead).