Marbella Matias: Gorilla OaxacaPowerful gorilla by Oaxacan woodcarving artist Marbella Matias. Marbella carved this gorilla in a commanding knuckle forward stance. Despite fitting in the palm of a hand, the piece carries real weight. The painting is dark and layered, built on a deep burgundy ground crossed by gold lightning lines that give the whole body an electric, volcanic energy. Glowing orange and red patches erupt across the surface, each filled with dense geometric pattern

while the caps shimmer in deep blues and creamy golds dotted with tiny constellations of light

Wire follows Cristo's instructions

and the secrets reveal themselves

It has sugar skulls

This cotton cushion is woven using the ancestral telar de cintura

and gratitude

as if it’s caught mid-moment

5''Tall 6''Long 2''Wide

Dimensions: 9

covered in concentric orange dots

This is a house mouse mid-scuttle

the founder of the Oaxacan alebrije tradition