Cristo Escamilla: Wire Hummingbird Wire Art Oaxacan Paper Figurine the United States

the United States

with handwritten Spanish text that reads "It eats aquatic and land insects

wearing her crown with pride

and tiny dots

Cristo Escamilla: Wire Hummingbird Wire Art Oaxacan Paper Figurine the United StatesCristo Escamilla's colibr is caught at the exact moment of hover, wings flung wide, body angled, beak curved and reaching. It is all motion, which is exactly right for an animal whose wings beat up to eighty times per second. This is no ordinary hummingbird. The two small green wire ovals hanging from the body are the giveaway; they are the signature tail rackets of the Ocreatus underwoodii, the booted racket tail, a cloud forest hummingbird of the