Shade Bulit Pottery

In our gathering of pottery from Mexico, we brought just a few pieces from the coastal area of Oaxaca. 

Painted in whites and reds with earth pigments…kind, capable and humble. The land of Mixtec, Amuzgo and Afromestizo people. The place of old ways in new times.  

Distant and hard to reach, few outsiders visit these corners of Mexico, but it is a place where pottery and weaving are still part of the fabric of daily life. 

The old has yet to be completely eroded by the new and, in silence, the pottery speaks of a slower world where barefooted potters dig clay from the earth and form their pots in the shade of the courtyard mango tree.