Beautiful Guelaguetza Dancer Carving – Zapotec Baile Folklorico

Master alebrije carver Ezequiel Aucensio Medina Solis has managed to perfectly capture the rapturous trance of traditional dance in this haunting piece. She’s sturdy, made of solid wood, and yet you can feel the movement in her dress, and the calmness in her soul when you look at the piece. It is extremely intricate while giving the illusion of being simplistic. It’s one of his best pieces.

This piece was hand-carved from willow wood and hand-painted. The artist is Ezequiel Aucensio Medina Solís, a master alebrije artisan in San Pedro Ixtlahuaca in the Central Valley region of Oaxaca.

We have been blessed to meet a few extremely talented artisans dotted around the Oaxacan valley. We work directly with them to allow them to gain the highest possible price for their work, and to give us a chance to commission pieces. We want you to know that we strongly believe in a fair and living wage for these amazing artists. We never haggle price. This means sometimes we miss out on amazing pieces that we cannot afford, but we can sleep at night knowing that we aren’t asking artists to put weeks and months into pieces that don’t produce weeks and months worth of wage for them.