Sandia Pueblo Cross | New Mexico Folk Art | Pablo Flores Cross or synthetic fillers are used

or synthetic fillers are used

Provenance: Peru

this set was crafted for the discerning traveler who demanded luxury even in the smallest of diversions

red ear details

or layered over a simple dress

Sandia Pueblo Cross | New Mexico Folk Art | Pablo Flores Cross or synthetic fillers are usedSome objects are made. This one was gathered. Pablo Flores traveled to each of the 19 Pueblos of New Mexico and collected what the land had abandoned. Weathered wood. Rusted metal. Worn leather. Farm remnants bleached by sun and scoured by wind. He brought it back to his studio in the Taos Valley and shaped it into this. Nothing in this cross was purchased. Every element came from the ground of its Pueblo. It does not represent a place. It is made of