Handmade Papier Mache Catrina Sculpture with Macaw - Catrina with Macaw Lounge Love nylon strings

nylon strings

Shaped like two hearts

Johnny Chamba started out as an apprentice in a small woodshop in Lima

Poised and dressed to the nines

offering this beautiful and eco-friendly set

Handmade Papier Mache Catrina Sculpture with Macaw - Catrina with Macaw Lounge Love nylon stringsWorking in papier mache, Marina Lozano of Mexico creates this beautiful catrina statuette. The skeletal sculpture is elegantly dressed, with flowers in her hair and a macaw at her bosom. Lozano designs the figurine after the original 'La Calavera Catrina', a zinc etching created by the artist Jos Guadalupe Posada in Mexico around 1910. Posada created the character, a female skeleton with an elegant hat, as a satirical portrait of Mexican natives who