An artist from Guatemala, he practices "magic realism," a form of representation similar to the literature of Gabriel García Márquez and Miguel Angel Asturias. More precisely, his work refers to a double tradition: the oneiric domain of surrealism and the highly colored paintings of the Latin American naive. His almost narrative approach exoticizes the material aspect of human behavior and corporeal form. Ceibal depicts scenes of ritual and celebration, consummately garnered by their inherent call to death. Extremely provocative parallel realities coalesce—the grandeur of life, life as an endless spectacle and death examined at a distance without despair.