Armando Jimenez carves his alebrijes in the tradition of his grandfather, Don Manuel Jiménez Ramírez, founder of the Oaxacan alebrije movement, and this rooster sits squarely within that classic style.
The rooster is caught off balance on purpose, weight forward, comb thrown back, tail sweeping high into a curve that pulls the whole composition upward and to one side.
Across cultures the rooster has long stood for the turn from dark to light, the animal that announces the day before anyone else is awake, and a bird this animated suits that restless reputation.
The rooster carries the same confidence found throughout Don Manuel's lineage, bold, radiating bands of color fanned out and balanced against a body kept comparatively quiet and dotted, the kind of contrast this family's work is known for.
