Mixed Media Wall Art: Embroidered Bird Amate painting as if listening for something

as if listening for something

They made a series of 50 and this is one of the very few left

To carve a mushroom in Oaxaca is to invoke a creature that lives between the everyday and the dreamlike

each filled with its own pattern

Wonderful tropical fish woodcarving by top Oaxacan woodcarving artist Luis Pablo

Mixed Media Wall Art: Embroidered Bird Amate painting as if listening for somethingThis beautiful mixed media wall art features a colorful hand embroidered bird. The handcrafted bark paper is made in Puebla, Mexico, using traditional pre Hispanic methods of papermaking. In the center of the piece is a square cotton cloth hand embroidered with a bright butterfly. The embroidery is handmade in Tenango, Puebla, and is centered on the moist paper. The natural, bark colored perforations are strands of paper woven while the paper is still