Cristo Escamilla: Wire Frog Wire Art Oaxaca Figurine Because of this

Because of this

while the back is filled with paisley teardrops and pointillist dot work

carved from wood

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

Cristo Escamilla: Wire Frog Wire Art Oaxaca Figurine Because of thisCristo 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