Cristo Escamilla:Mid Size Owl Wire Art Oaxacan wood dating back to the pre-Columbian

dating back to the pre-Columbian era

exceptional woodcarvings

On this piece

radiates movement and precision

ears forward

Cristo Escamilla:Mid Size Owl Wire Art Oaxacan wood dating back to the pre-ColumbianCristo 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;