Author: alxwyt

rezpiral. since 2017, in support and defense of traditional mezcal. The art, the craft, the biodiversity, and the people who uphold it all with work. Holding steady. since 2017, 66,000 agave, from seed, gifted & $86,000 US dollars from sales profit redirected back to producer families. 2017 $1,725 2018 $4,655 2019 $15,000 2020 $11,200 2021 … Continue reading aesthetics of actions – rezpiral since 2017

In the Eye of the Toad there is a Seed, produced and created by rezpiral founder/operator Alex White, 2024 First edition print run of 1,000 July 2024 From the scorching dry seasoned mountains of Oaxaca Mexico down into a myriad of life and awakenings with the voice of the underground river. A collection of moments … Continue reading Arts Release! “In the Eye of the Toad there is a Seed”

Video shot and edited by Nicolás Hernández (II) Grabado y editado por Nicolás Hernández (II)

This year was Berta Vasquez's first trip outside of Mexico where she presented herself, her work and her Campesino Mezcales in Arizona and New Mexico alongside me Alex White, and the practice of Rezpiral. In all we presented to and connected with 9 different audiences in Arizona and New Mexico, sharing a range of mezcales, … Continue reading Berta Vasquez & Rezpiral: Agave Heritage Festival 24 and educational tour

Upcoming collection & releases: 22 batches selected from 6 campesino mezcaleros/mezcaleras - Abel Martinez, Berta Vasquez, Simeon Ramirez, Reina Sanchez, Antonio Santiago, Alejandrina & Nicolas Hernandez. Artworks on the water ecologies that sustain the lands and villages, the life of each one of these bottles. Artwork and passages are drawings I created over the past … Continue reading Rezpiral 24/25: The Dream of a River

This year, Rezpiral has collaborated with mezcalero campesino and school teacher Luis Antonio Santiago of San Vicente Coatlan who runs an agave nursery where he grows agave from seed. 8,700 agave of these agave, of the subvarietals Arroqueño and Mexicano, were purchased and gifted to different campesino mezcalero families - mostly with whom Rezpiral has … Continue reading 2023 Agave gifting/transplanting

  April 21, 2023 Every year, I take good time to think through where I'm at with a handful of campesino mezcaleros with whom I've worked and befriended over the course of eight years. I think long and hard about aesthetics, mediums, ideas - lots of things really. To what this project or practice, known … Continue reading Artworks – 2023

$18,421 or 30% of the post-cost profit of 2022 redistributed as a % correlated to each family's part/contribution to the 7th Series of mezcals. Fund re-distribution as follows: Simeon Ramirez 14% Berta Vasquez 24% Aureliano Hernández 12% Abel Martínez 8% Reina Sanchez 16% Christina & Tio Chico (RIP) 4% Alejandrina & Nicolás Hernández 14% Luis … Continue reading 2022 Profit share – $18,421 to 8 families