Lucero Fuentes: Bull Woodcarving Alebrije Trees of Life Origin Michoacan

Origin Michoacan

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

This wonderful fish sculpture was created by Oaxaca artist Faviola Fabian

completing the four cardinal directions

and purple

Lucero Fuentes: Bull Woodcarving Alebrije Trees of Life Origin MichoacanA 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