Showing posts with label moche artists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label moche artists. Show all posts

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Weaving baskets

Moche artisans used to weave reed baskets of all sizes for different uses. Some of them work on this for fifty years.
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Estos artesanos de Moche usan carrizo para tejer canastas de diferentes tamaños, para diversos usos. Algunos de ellos trabajan en este oficio desde hace cincuenta años.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Copper elephant

I visited artisan workshops this week, today I met a group of artisans who work with cow bones and sheets of copper, this image can only see one stage of its production process ... Copper Elephant, each measuring no more than a centimeter. At first sight this can look like chocolates :-)
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Esta semana visité talleres de artesanos, hoy llegué al taller de un grupo de artesanos que trabajan con huesos de vaca y láminas de cobre, en esta fotografía sólo podemos ver una etapa de su proceso de producción... elefantes de cobre, cada uno de ellos no mide más de un centímetro. A simple vista podrían verse como chocolates en forma de elefantes :-)

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Painting

This man was so concentrated that he didn't realize when I took the photo.

Friday, October 19, 2007

Decapitator

Moche Culture has a figure called the Decapitator, mostly depicted as a spider, but also depicted as a winged creature or a sea monster all three features symbolizing land, water and air. We can see this figure in the "Huaca de la Luna", showing different expresions.
Some artisans use the Decapitator in many souveniers... but this time I saw its shape in a mirror, and I like it a lot, besides my eyes look rare but the mirror is nice :)

La Cultura Moche tiene una personaje llamado el Degollador , mayormente representado como una araña, pero también se le describe como una criatura alada o un monstruo marino con los tres elementos que simbolizan la tierra, el agua y el aire. Podemos ver esta figura en los frisos interiores de la "Huaca de la Luna", donde muestra diferentes expresiones.

Algunos artesanos usan al Degollador en los souvenirs... esta vez ví un espejo con su forma, me gustó mucho, y aunque mis ojos se vean raros, el espejo es lindo :)

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Gourd birdhouses

This gourds are handpainted by moche artists, they belong to Art School and sell this gourds to foreign people, because in Peru, people don't use this products for nests o birdhouses, but this young people is creating new products for local consumers... it's a challenge for them.