Luis Pablo Mendoza carved a lemur from Madagascar cradling a garden snail in both hands, studying it with huge amber eyes rimmed in cobalt blue. He is not eating it. He is completely absorbed by it. This is what Luis Pablo does: he finds the moment just before anything happens, and holds it there.
The lemur sits cross-legged, ringed tail coiled out to one side, both arms cradling the snail as carefully as something fragile and newly found. Huge amber yellow eyes, dilated wide and rimmed in cobalt blue, give him a look of total absorption. A tiny purple nose and mouth complete the face.
The painting is signature Luis Pablo. Soft mint green across the chest and limbs, the tail crisply banded in cobalt and white. The snail in his hands is a small painting all its own, pink mosaic body and striped coral and amber shell.
The lemur is not native to Mexico. He comes from Madagascar, half a world away. Luis Pablo has always taken the alebrije tradition wherever his imagination leads. This piece is about the meeting itself, between creatures who would never find each other in nature, brought together in a moment of pure curiosity.
His hand-painted candle on the base is Luis Pablo's mark, the light he says every piece is meant to bring into the home.
