owl_butterfly_star_heart_bird

owl_butterfly_star_heart_bird
Steel, polyurethane, scrap foam, grout
6’5”
2023

owl_butterfly_star_heart_bird is a decorative motif found on a witch's pot from the Pre-Colombian Milagro-Quevedo culture of coastal Ecuador. I became familiar with this artefact while 3D scanning in the archeology reserves of the Museo Antropologico y de Arte Contemporaneo in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

photo credit: Tom Winchester, Libbi Ponce