"Doce Crónicas" is a series of 12 painted ceramic vessels from Teresa Margolles's continued collaboration with artisans in the Northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, near the U.S./Mexico border. Located in the region near the prehistoric Paquimé archaeological zone or Casas Grandes (the place of the big houses) the ceramicists have suffered greatly from the escalating violence in the area. This collaboration has resulted in a three-dimensional crónica (chronicle)—12 painted vessels, one made each month over this past year—that visually recounts events affecting the population. These vignettes depict contemporary cars and houses amid the geometric fretwork traditionally used in pre-Columbian Paquimé pottery, like the winding desert snake. Upon looking closely, the quidotian is violently disrupted by illustrations of car crashes, explosions, machetes, and skulls-and-crossbones—brutal scenes from a persistent conflict. There is a gun depicted on almost every pot. In a community shaped by both the volatile conditions of war and the legacies of cultural tradition, each of these vessels is a powerful means of place-making. In Margolles’s words: “Es una unión de cosmología y hechos sociales en un mismo plano – (It is a union of cosmology and social facts on the same plane).”