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November 2007 Collector's Corner |
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Coming in the front way is the iron and glass railing by Todd Campbell of Fisterra Studio, who I commissioned after seeing his work at the East Austin Art Crawl a couple of years ago. My home was built in 1974, and I'm on 5 acres of plant eating deer, superfine mosquitoes, raccoons, and all manner of critters, and one lovely husband. The dragonflies on the door are Haitian oil can art, the sphere is only one of my several treasures by local potters. The guard 'dillo is from Mexico. |
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The family room houses a long really old leather top Peruvian hand-tooled table from my mother's home. When I say really old, I mean older than my 68 years. The rug is a thick plush Gabay that begs sitting around on and the blue pillows are from Sylvana of Lima, Peru, from a trip there, to see where I was born. My place is very open style with a view from here to the breakfast nook, kitchen, and deck. |
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The 'dillo with lizard is by Mario and Reyna Castellanos, of Arrazola, Oaxaca, Mexico. |
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Another of mom's Peruvian tables with Oaxacan possum with babies by Armando Jimenez. I think possums are not my favorite critters in life, but this rendition was just too good. |
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Oaxacan possum, close-up, with coat of arms of Peru showing on table. |
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Romanian wedding rug with sterling silver very old colonial style bowl and silver-plated replica of colonial stirrups. |
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Anteater deluxe by Jacobo and Maria Angeles, Sn. Mtn. Tilcajete, Oaxoca, Mexico, with lots of ancient symbols. |
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One of my favorites is "skinny dog", perro flaco, as Maria and Jacobo Angeles described it on the underside. They are from Sn. Mtn. Tilcajete, Oaxaca, Mexico. The cactus with Hummingbirds requires no green thumb! |
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The pot is a handmade piece I was taken with when I stopped by the artists studio near Taos, and it is distinguished by having been fired in a huge wood burning kiln, with no glaze. The glossy shine is melted ash. Love those bugs, by Hilaario Blas, Sn. Pdr. Cajones, Oaxoca, Mex. I've got a small swarm of them. The bronze seated woman, is " Oh My", by perennial prizewinner Roxanne Swentzel in Santa Fe. She got too pricey in clay, but when she began casting, I bought one. It should last...no chipping. |
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I love giraffes and have all sizes, but I especially love placing my critters as participants in little vignettes, as in this "clock watcher". |
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A view of the breakfast nook bay and the deck. I have lots of windows, and not so many walls, so I'm apt to hang art any and everywhere. |
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Okay, my kitchen, did I mention that I like color and light? |
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The little gourd bird with silver beak and feet is from our last trip to Peru. Those gourds are wood-burned and I have some that are older than me. |
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The passageway that links the front to the back of the house is one of those things I really did right. Bless those glass doors, cuts way down on dusting. The big blue deer I bought several years ago when I met Maria and Jacobo Angeles--a very sweet couple that made me feel tall, ( I'm 5'2"). The Zebra is by Jose' Hernandez M. and sons Evaristo and Eraclio. The shelves house Aguilar market ladies, African, Turkish and Peruvian things. The wonderful old sterling silver pitcher is hand wrought and hammered, from Peru. |
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'El sol y la luna' and 'meaning of life' pieces are by Demitrio Aguilar, who I met at an Austin Friends of Folk Art function. I have a nice little group of Josefina Aguilar ladies and at their right are Dymskya figures from our trip to Russia. |
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Wood and turquoise inlaid box from Santa Fe and hummingbird Oaxacan wood carving. |
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Even more o' 'dem buggy critters! |
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Blue Zebra carved here in Austin at El Interior some years back, dried and later painted by Epifanio Fuentes and Laurencia. I had to twist his arm to let her sign her name, since she'd painted it. Oaxaca, Mex. |
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'Dillo with attitude. Old style natural pigments and with ancient symbols by Jacobo and Maria Angeles. |
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Feeding Chapparal, or Roadrunner, by Eleasar Morales. I have those around here too. |
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Hey guys, here's a remote! |
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Miniature oaxacan carvings about 2" by 2+", but I have another little group about 1/5th their size! |
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What a pair, I call them "Fidillo" and "saxmandillo". I'm trying for a group, they're 16" tall and we need a drummer or a base. Flowers are wood shaving petals. |
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Basket is from Africa made of telephone wire. They used to use grasses and then "borrowed" phone wire, then they were given phone wire in support of their cottage craft. A gift from my daughter, in fabulous colors, she showed me that you could still smell the campfire smoke in it. |
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Turkish rugs from our trip to Istanbul and Greece are on the floor, the rug on the sofa is from Peru and bought high in the Andes on the way to Machu Pichu, and the red pillows are from Sylvana in Lima. The rug hanging is Navajo. The vase is from Mexico, and is hand hammered copper enameled with calla lilies. |
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Love those froggies that eat skeeters! He and his cousin Blue, are by T. Viguera. |
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My multi-cultural bathroom. Peru, Mexico, Greece, Russia, two local potters, and my tile work design. |
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I painted the iron furniture red, to bloom when other things failed. |
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More oil can art from Haiti. We feed the birds and the butterflies. |
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"Papa" Agave. Be careful when you pot one of these that you move it before it gets this big. One friend named his two "pups" from this plant, Jose and Cuervo. |
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Caras de barro from Metepec. |
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My Mexican "fish" pot. |
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Metal lady bug on leaf, by a local artist. |
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