{"product_id":"adrian-corona-bats-medium-size-mata-ortiz","title":"Adrian Corona: Bats Medium Size Mata Ortiz","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince 2017, Adrian Corona Trillo has made bats his signature subject, and this piece shows why that choice has held up. The form is a wide, perfectly rounded olla, hand-built in the Mata Ortiz tradition of Chihuahua, which Adrian learned from his mother, Ana Trillo. Everything here is done without a wheel, a kiln, or commercial tools, a tradition revived in the 1970s from the ruins of ancient Casas Grandes pottery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe bat carries deep roots in Mexican tradition. The Zapotecs of Oaxaca, whose civilization flourished at Monte Albán, associated the bat with both the underworld and fertility, a creature of darkness that also pollinated the maguey and the ceiba. A 2,000-year-old jade bat mask found at Monte Albán is among the most celebrated objects in pre-Columbian art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdrian's bats are not threatening. They move through branches and flowers in fluid, overlapping arcs, wings spread wide, each figure drawn with the sgraffito technique, scratching through a black slip to reveal the white clay body beneath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eViewed from above, the composition circles the open mouth of the olla without interruption, bats and blossoms turning endlessly around the rim. It is a piece that rewards slow looking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOrigin: Mata Ortiz \u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 7\"Tall 21\"Circumference\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sandia Folk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48649518481657,"sku":"710362AC","price":395.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0245\/1069\/3451\/files\/AdrianCoronaBatsMataOrtiz_SandiaFolk0215.webp?v=1783542340","url":"https:\/\/www.sandiafolk.com\/products\/adrian-corona-bats-medium-size-mata-ortiz","provider":"Sandia Folk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}