When Mexican sculptor Enrique Carbajal (Sebastián) was commissioned to design a monumental statue marking the forty fifth anniversary of the municipality of Nezahualcóyotl, he took reasonably literal inspiration from its identify. Town's identify comes from that of an Aztec chief whose identify means “Fasting Coyote” in Nahuatl (Coyote en Ayuno in Spanish). Though there's a smaller statue of the chief himself in the identical plaza, it's the large crimson coyote itself that visually dominates the working-class suburb of Neza. It's so positioned that on April 23, the founding date of town, the primary ray of daylight shines by its eye and onto a commemorative plaque.
Like many abstracted works of recent artwork, nevertheless, the sculpture has not been with out controversy. As was the case with a few of Sebastián's different sculptures, such because the Guerrero Chimalli in neighboring Chimalhuacán, Coyote en Ayuno has been criticized as being out-of-scale with the encircling space. As well as, the undertaking confronted building value and time overruns when first constructed, inflicting controversy for the mayor who commissioned it.
Regardless, this gargantuan statue has since then change into a landmark of Nezahualcóyotl.
