Cristo Escamilla: Wire Hummingbird Wire ArtCristo 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

Artes de México

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Black and white rings sweep around the volume

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This charming monkey by top Oaxacan woodcarver Luis Pablo is utterly endearing

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The volume profiles 88 master artisans selected from more than 200 candidates by editor Cándida Fernández de Calderón

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the ears lined in the same pink as her tail and feet

a small altar that carries the whole weight of a great Mexican feast for the dead

It is witty