Cristo Escamilla: Wire Hummingbird Wire Art Mata Ortiz Pottery The axolotl

The axolotl

represent prayers for healing

and the silhouette is so fluid that your eye naturally follows the curve from nose to tail-tip

Gorgeous large ceramic cross by the Hernandez family of Metepec

The figure’s bold red body

Cristo Escamilla: Wire Hummingbird Wire Art Mata Ortiz Pottery The axolotlCristo Escamilla's colibr is caught at the exact moment of hover, wings flung wide, body angled, beak curved and reaching. It is all motion, which is exactly right for an animal whose wings beat up to eighty times per second. This is no ordinary hummingbird. The two small green wire ovals hanging from the body are the giveaway; they are the signature tail rackets of the Ocreatus underwoodii, the booted racket tail, a cloud forest hummingbird of the