Antonio Alonso: Museum Quality Axolotl Emperor Ceremony Mexican Olla and renewal

and renewal

a world of its own

flow across the form like valleys full of spring flowers seen from above

flowers are associated with the earth goddess Tatei Yurienaka

The graphite black on black technique that defines this olla traces back to the Ortiz family itself

Antonio Alonso: Museum Quality Axolotl Emperor Ceremony Mexican Olla and renewalThis is Antonio Alonso at his most ambitious and inventive, a full ceremonial tableau in which a court of axolotls gathers around their emperor in a sacred ritual. The piece is unlike anything else in his repertoire, a multi figure composition that reads almost like a small mythological theater set on a black wooden stage. At the center rises a turquoise tree of life, its trunk and curling branches painted in shades of teal and aqua, scattered with