Daisy Ramirez: Seed Pot Mata Ortiz horse figure and orange in dense geometric

and orange in dense geometric and op-art patterns: checkerboards

and the lion's body painted in warm red ochre with wavy stripes and glyphs

Dimensions: 3''Tall 5''Long 3''Wide

He works alongside his wife Mayte Calvo in San Martín Tilcajete

dating back to the pre-Columbian era

Daisy Ramirez: Seed Pot Mata Ortiz horse figure and orange in dense geometricThe Mata Ortiz seed pot sits low and round, the kind of form that looks simple until you see what is on it. Daisy Ramirez, a Mata Ortiz potter from Chihuahua, has covered the entire upper dome in a dense, continuous field of tiny geometric marks triangles, spirals, zigzags, step frets each one individually incised by hand through a red slip to reveal the cream clay beneath. No pattern repeats in quite the same way twice. Fine teal lines divide the