Antonio Alonso: Museum Quality Axolotl Emperor Ceremony heart 5''Tall 19''Long 3''Wide

5''Tall 19''Long 3''Wide

and warm red

with clean geometric lines that give the figure a thoroughly contemporary feel

Wonderful tropical fish woodcarving by top Oaxacan woodcarving artist Luis Pablo

pieces he carves together with his wife

Antonio Alonso: Museum Quality Axolotl Emperor Ceremony heart 5''Tall 19''Long 3''WideThis is Antonio Alonso at his most ambitious and inventive, a full ceremonial tableau in which a court of axolotls gathers around their emperor in a sacred ritual. The piece is unlike anything else in his repertoire, a multi figure composition that reads almost like a small mythological theater set on a black wooden stage. At the center rises a turquoise tree of life, its trunk and curling branches painted in shades of teal and aqua, scattered with