Cactus with Owl and Snake Figures The subject is identified in

The subject is identified in many church carvings which are themselves a source for contemporary woodcarvers and painters such as Maria Jimenez Ojeda

This form of weaving is still common in Oaxaca

Here a women of the night is part of a larger scene

In this piece both carving and painting have made a perfect object

one man with a huge white balloon and two people disguised as giants (see their head below the waist in a cut out in the dress

Cactus with Owl and Snake Figures The subject is identified in22x19, h. 38 cm Wood Paint Origin Oaxaca Signed A tree of life. An owl, two love birds, a humming bird taking nectar from the cactus flowers. a bird tending two chicks in a nest and a snake all bound in an old large cactus tree. Life and the struggle of life. A day.