Laguna Pueblo Cross | New Mexico Folk Art | Pablo Flores topeng Each section of wire is

Each section of wire is tightly wrapped by hand around a solid silver core

This mask type follows Chichicastenango festival and rental traditions

Because each fiber is naturally hollow

A Golden Age Relic from La Grande Maison de Blanc

and dotted motifs that cover the wings and breast

Laguna Pueblo Cross | New Mexico Folk Art | Pablo Flores topeng Each section of wire isSome objects are made. This one was gathered. Pablo Flores traveled to each of the 19 Pueblos of New Mexico and collected what the land had abandoned. Weathered wood. Rusted metal. Worn leather. Farm remnants bleached by sun and scoured by wind. He brought it back to his studio in the Taos Valley and shaped it into this. Nothing in this cross was purchased. Every element came from the ground of its Pueblo. It does not represent a place. It is made of