Antonio Alonso: Museum Quality Axolotl Emperor Ceremony Mexican Olla This delightful California Bear is

This delightful California Bear is small enough to fit in your hand but big enough to bring a smile wherever it roams

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looped copper mesh

flow across the form like valleys full of spring flowers seen from above

The lines bend and pulse the way optical patterns do

Antonio Alonso: Museum Quality Axolotl Emperor Ceremony Mexican Olla This delightful California Bear isThis is Antonio Alonso at his most ambitious and inventive, a full ceremonial tableau in which a court of axolotls gathers around their emperor in a sacred ritual. The piece is unlike anything else in his repertoire, a multi figure composition that reads almost like a small mythological theater set on a black wooden stage. At the center rises a turquoise tree of life, its trunk and curling branches painted in shades of teal and aqua, scattered with