Antonio Alonso: Museum Quality Axolotl Emperor Ceremony heart ceremonial dignity

ceremonial dignity

with clean geometric lines that give the figure a thoroughly contemporary feel

and warm red

pieces he carves together with his wife

Black and white rings sweep around the volume

Antonio Alonso: Museum Quality Axolotl Emperor Ceremony heart ceremonial dignityThis 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