Cristo Escamilla:Mid Size Owl Wire Art miniature

Cristo Escamilla:Mid Size Owl Wire Art miniatureCristo Escamilla's inquiring owl charms with its face, and the face is hard to look away from. Two glass eyes sit at the center of perfectly spiraled wire discs, each strand laid in tight concentric rings that echo the facial ruff a real owl uses to funnel sound toward its ears. Anatomically honest and formally beautiful at the same time. The technique for the body shifts. The chest is dense looped mesh, warm copper deepened with paint in the shadows;

the heart of the piece

tiny black silhouettes of gorillas and monkeys are painted directly on the dark ground

with the same fan and flower motifs you would find strung above a courtyard in Oaxaca on the first of November

Every inch is covered in fine

This little fox is so uplifting

The mask stands on its own or it can be hung as well

Spectacular one-piece Chameleon Alebrije

graphic presence

designed to stand out in any serious folk art display

almost botanical composition that contrasts beautifully with the busy

Marbella carved this gorilla in a commanding knuckle-forward stance

Wonderful  bats and flowers adorn this beautiful olla by Mata Oritz artist Adrian Corona