Antonio Alonso: Museum Quality Axolotl Emperor Ceremony Mexican Olla They mark this Xolo not

They mark this Xolo not as a household pet but as a creature of myth

and renewal

and deep indigo

Such an elegant cat

The body stretches in a sleek

Antonio Alonso: Museum Quality Axolotl Emperor Ceremony Mexican Olla They mark this Xolo notThis is Antonio Alonso at his most ambitious and inventive, a full ceremonial tableau in which a court of axolotls gathers around their emperor in a sacred ritual. The piece is unlike anything else in his repertoire, a multi figure composition that reads almost like a small mythological theater set on a black wooden stage. At the center rises a turquoise tree of life, its trunk and curling branches painted in shades of teal and aqua, scattered with