Marbella Matias: Alebrije Gorilla Oaxaca mexican mask It has sugar skulls

It has sugar skulls

turns the olla into a three-dimensional homage to the region’s ancestral buildings

she holds a skeleton cat

The snail in his hands is a small painting all its own

Marbella Matias: Alebrije Gorilla Oaxaca mexican mask It has sugar skullsPowerful gorilla by Oaxacan woodcarving artist Marbella Matias. Marbella carved this gorilla in a commanding knuckle forward stance. Despite fitting in the palm of a hand, the piece carries real weight. The painting is dark and layered, built on a deep burgundy ground crossed by gold lightning lines that give the whole body an electric, volcanic energy. Glowing orange and red patches erupt across the surface, each filled with dense geometric pattern