San Ildefonso Pueblo Cross | New Mexico Folk Art | Pablo Flores vintage decor confirming its handmade nature

confirming its handmade nature

plant material

Each figure is worked by hand into a single dense form

Wash gentle in cold or warm water

Can it also be displayed on a wall

San Ildefonso Pueblo Cross | New Mexico Folk Art | Pablo Flores vintage decor confirming its handmade natureSome objects are made. This one was gathered. Pablo Flores traveled to each of the 19 Pueblos of New Mexico and collected what the land had abandoned. Weathered wood. Rusted metal. Worn leather. Farm remnants bleached by sun and scoured by wind. He brought it back to his studio in the Taos Valley and shaped it into this. Nothing in this cross was purchased. Every element came from the ground of its Pueblo. It does not represent a place. It is made of