A fellow tourist commented to me the other day that he once said to his wife when they returned from Mexico on another visit "where did all the colour go?" - and so far this seems to truly sum up Mexico. Everywhere you look here, it seems as if some (very stylish) giant has taken a whole bunch of multi-colour paint tins and just sloshed them all over the place. Colour is vibrant and EVERYWHERE. Perhaps no more so than these gorgeous little alebrije (brightly colored Oaxacan-Mexican folk art sculptures) which I am presently completely obsessed with.
Hundreds of itty bitty alebrije!
Huge coyote in production; larger pieces prior to painting. Men carve the pieces from wood, women paint them
Lion - with hair made from fibres of the agave plant (which is also the plant that makes tequila)
Cat? Coyote? Who knows and who cares - this is a whole lotta cute.
Jaguar
Crab! Owl! Turtle! Bug! Fish! Crazy blue spiky monster thing!
Howling coyotes
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