wall art for living room

Ronald Franco, a Peruvian artisan versed in metalworking, produces this stunning wall mask in her workshop outside Lima through an involved process. This mask goes through a strategic crafting process, with the artisan starting by shaping copper sheets by hand using a chisel, then receiving smaller detail work and finally being bathed in a solution to create the copper sulfate finish. This mask is a reproduction of the larger original version, depicting an octopus in the motif of a personified sun beaming at the earth below.

Legend tells how Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent, created the human race. However, in doing so, he had to confront Mictlantecuhtli, the god of death. Inspired by this story, artisans from the Angel Cerón Artisan Association create an original mask that is faithful to Mexico's ancient books and archaeological record.

Artisans from the Angel Cerón Artisan Association handcraft a ceramic replica of an Aztec calendar that will make an intriguing conversation piece wherever it is displayed. A replica of the Piedra del Sol, the "sun stone," found in the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, the images in the calendar represent the legend of the fifth sun. According to Mesoamerican cosmology, there were four suns before our current sun, all destroyed, along with the people of the time, by the wrath of the gods. Faithful to the original, the replica is full of intricate detail and painted in warm, earthy yellow, orange, green, and beige. A sueded leather cord makes a loop at the top for easy hanging.

Depicted with a blue face and a majestic, colorful headdress, the face of the Mayan god of death, Ah Puch is depicted in this archaeologically-inspired mask from Mexico. The Angel Ceron Artisan Association presents this mask, which is handcrafted from ceramic by local artisans.