Cristo Escamilla: Mischievous Mouse Wire Art bull sculpture and protection

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while she painted them with the precision and depth that has made their collaboration so admired among serious collectors

and deep indigo

two sacred forces necessary to balance and well-being

edged with red-dashed stitching

Cristo Escamilla: Mischievous Mouse Wire Art bull sculpture and protectionThis is a house mouse mid scuttle, caught in the exact posture that has been making humans jump on chairs for thousands of years. The pose is completely convincing. The whiskers, just a few bare wire strands springing forward from the snout, seal the deal. The body is Cristo at his most tactile: dense, looped copper mesh, individual coils tumbling over one another like rumpled fur, warm brown and golden where the light catches beneath. The ears are