Copalera No. 4 incense burner by Acoocooro.Dimensions: ø 31 x H 18 cm.Materials: Crema maya (Yucatán peninsula marble) incense burner and lid.Veining and mineral composition may give unique appearance to each piece.Copaleras create a play between their soft appearance and the heaviness of their function and ambiguous materiality. They suggest the prescence of magical events, of an intimate ritual. They show evidence of a ceremony's emotional archeology: the burning of copal (aromatic resin) and fragrant herbs, used to purify the place where the ritual takes place, as well as its participants.Founded in 2017 by Martín Diego Salido-Orcillo and Antonio Mendoza Bravo, ACOOCOORO is a furniture, lighting and artifacts studio, a lab, focused on aesthetic and historic research, on objects' narrative and emotional relation with individuals and space.Every object, every piece, more than a product in a collection, is the result of exploration and experimentation through materials, processes and artisanal work. These elements fill every one of them with history, stories and memories: those of the individuals that conceive and create them, and those of the people that live their lives through and with them.Silent Design, finally, is a guiding principle in ACOOCOORO's practice, whenever the collaboration with artisan groups is involved, with a complex yet clear goal: the establishment of non-extractive, cooperative, self-sufficient relations, where craftsmanship, economic benefit, authorship, property, and narrative are reclaimed by and rebalanaced in favor of the artisans themselves, and notthe designers.