Pachacamac

In 2018, Seaton traveled to Peru and toured Pachacamac near the Pacific coast, southeast of Lima. This ancient sanctuary was built more than 1,000 years before the Inca empire, and its chief structure La Huaca del Sol (Temple of the Sun), the remains of a vast brick and adobe pyramid, inspired much of this series.

In his Pachacamac series, he reimagined La Huaca del Sol’s patterned brickwork, and the intense play of light across its stepped surfaces as geometric variations that radiate across the surface of each work in high-key arrangements of cadmium yellows and oranges, often counterpointed by cerulean blue and pale viridian green.

Other paintings were inspired by Huaca Pucllana, the great adobe and clay pyramid in Lima’s Miraflores district, and by artefacts in the Museo Larco and the Museo Nacional de Arqueología, particularly the duality, geometric abstraction and sophisticated techniques found variously in Moche and Lima pottery, and Wari textiles.