Daisy Ramirez: Seed Pot Mata Ortiz horse figure and the Fundación Harp Helú

and the Fundación Harp Helú

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

The duck is painted with intricate geometric patterns

with their traditional woven dolls that create the ribs of the armadillo

Daisy Ramirez: Seed Pot Mata Ortiz horse figure and the Fundación Harp HelúThe 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