Cristo Escamilla:Mid Size Owl Wire Art Oaxacan wood a molcajete

a molcajete

imaginative creature

invoking his powerful intercession against evil

Dimensions: 7''Tall 5''Long 2''Wide

Cristo Escamilla:Mid Size Owl Wire Art Oaxacan wood a molcajeteCristo 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;