Luis Pablo: Lemur with Snail Woodcarving Home Decor Across cultures the rooster has

Across cultures the rooster has long stood for the turn from dark to light

scratching through a black slip to reveal the white clay body beneath

with clean geometric lines that give the figure a thoroughly contemporary feel

a dramatic masklike face with wide eyes

Luis Pablo: Lemur with Snail Woodcarving Home Decor Across cultures the rooster hasLuis 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