Exclusives, JUN 03

CERAMIC TREES OF LIFE - The Fowler Brings You Mexico
Color and culture from across the border
By JENNIFER CHANG, editor-in-chief

The clay pieces, decorated in paints and varnishes, are laden with religious, social, and mythical symbolism. For example, the use of the tree shape suggests that the country’s modern identity lays in the land’s ancient past. It has also come to represent family (think of a “family tree”) and also the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge at the center of the Garden of Eden.