Lucero Fuentes: Bull Woodcarving Alebrije Trees of Life This beautiful mask has a

This beautiful mask has a very detailed painted design and wonderful bright coloring

making the sculpture not just decorative but spiritually meaningful

but they are not for worship

Origin Michoacan

Isabel Fabian is certainly one of the most talented woodcarving artists in Oaxaca today

Lucero Fuentes: Bull Woodcarving Alebrije Trees of Life This beautiful mask has aA wonderful bashful bull by artist Lucero Fuentes, daughter of master carver Epifanio Fuentes. The pose is full of energy: head down, horns lifted, the whole body coiled and ready. A long tail curves upward behind, ribboning through the full rainbow from red at the root to green at the tip, giving the piece a festive spring that lightens all that ground level power. The painting is pure pleasure. The front half carries stacked horizontal bands in