Alas Indigo
Designed, woven, and dyed by Wenceslao Martinez.
Assisted by Jacobo Martinez.
Alas Indigo comes from the Alas series, a group of works inspired by bird wings against sunlight. On the artist’s balcony in Teotitlán del Valle, flocks of birds often line up to observe the mountain-ringed valley below. In Alas Indigo, the wool mimics their feathers. Colored yarns begin to break up the darks in the weaving as a reference to crows' black and blue iridescence.
Hand-spun Oaxacan Churro wool, dyed with cochineal and indigo, with natural cream, grey, and black.
60” x 40”