Cristo Escamilla: Wire Frog Wire Art Oaxaca Figurine The Zapotec call them santos

The Zapotec call them santos niños

the signature plume that real Xolos sometimes carry between their ears

The result reads not as an exhibition catalog but as a sustained act of witness

The balloon it holds high is a symbolic centerpiece of Oaxacan festivals

This striking hyena by the Tribus Mixes workshop is all about attitude and pattern

Cristo Escamilla: Wire Frog Wire Art Oaxaca Figurine The Zapotec call them santosCristo Escamilla's adorable frog has found its spot and has no plans to move. The ranita, frog, holds the classic resting posture of a tree frog, caught mid pause, alert, unhurried, completely at home on any surface it lands on. The pose is so right that it takes a moment to register that it's a wire figure! The body is built in green painted copper magnet wire, dense and tightly looped, with copper threading through the mesh and catching warmly at