Cristo Escamilla: Curious Mouse Wire Art woodcarving and often focus more on

and often focus more on the figure's shape and character than on intricate decoration

It is a little wire animal

one luminous and one absorbed — gives the decoration its quiet power

Hand-carved from a single block of copal wood by artist Maricela Hernández

Cristo captures this biological detail using only pliers

Cristo Escamilla: Curious Mouse Wire Art woodcarving and often focus more onCristo Escamilla's curious ratn has heard something. Both hind feet planted, front paws raised and curled, nose lifted, this is a mouse on full alert, caught in the classic rearing posture that rodents use to assess a threat. Whether to run or stay has not yet been decided. The raised forepaws are impressive, each tiny finger curved and distinct, with the slightly dramatic quality of an animal bracing for something. It is a little wire animal, so well