Antonio Alonso: Flowers Seller Mexican Folk Art bead art Daisy Ramirez

Daisy Ramirez

combines elements from two (or more) real animals to spark the imagination

and printed newsprint that crowned Antonio's Xolo emperor

These devotional charms represent prayers for healing

Antonio Alonso: Flowers Seller Mexican Folk Art bead art Daisy RamirezThe next figure in Antonio Alonso's street vendor series brings us the florista, the flower seller whose wooden crate of fresh blooms is one of the most enduring sights in any Mexican market. Here she is rendered as a female tlacuache, dignified and absorbed in her work, cradling a generous bouquet against her chest while a wooden crate of roses waits at her feet. She wears a long red dress patterned with a fine white grid, finished at the hem with an