"The land where the sun was born" refers the fragile existence of a sacred land in a global world. Nestled in a desert valley in central Mexico, Wirikuta is for the Wixárikas Indians the land of founding myths and manifold divinities. They come every year on pilgrimage to celebrate the birth of the sun and fire. From the Conquista to the industrial era, these lands have been open to new communities that have modified its nature but not its spiritual meaning. Now, a new cycle of threats is affecting this territory. All kinds of extractivists are trying to take over the land with the complicity of the Mexican government. Since 2017, I have been staying in these lands for several months each year, I have unwittingly become an actor. Drawing from my background in anthropology, I began to gather information, soak up the stories told by locals, to experience them. This investigation naturally expanded to books, fieldwork and satellite images provided by Google Earth. I went on to borrow from scientific protocols to record various phenomena found within the geographical limits of this sacred land. Armed with a portable scanner, camera traps, a microscope and an array of video cameras, I sought to envelop the region’s memory—or at least outline its contours—by expending the region’s visual resources. The many images produced explore the concepts of extraction, removal and cutting as acts that mirror those of photography and the technical systems we use to see the world. My documentary approach proved to be rigid, it had a setback, and then it was converted into a writing that was more porous to the realities of this singular place. Clarity and transparency emerged as prominent elements as the project took shape, along with the limits of the perceptible. I came to approach the subject from oblique perspective, surely out of a sense of reserve or respect. The work eschews frontal representation of the Other in order to delve into the hybrid forms that arise from contact with the real and imagined strata of this sacred land, and with its people. In a recent interview, the anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro said that “it could be useful to look at what Indians know how to do: live in a world that has been stolen from them,” implying, of course, that we may suffer the same fate.