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Luis Pablo: Northwest Coast Art Turtle Oaxaca saints the kind that appears inThis striking sea turtle by Luis Pablo feels like a little piece of Northwest Coast mythology come to life. The smooth, stylized body becomes a moving canvas of bold black, white, red, and green, echoing the graphic power of Indigenous Pacific Northwest design. On the shell, a dramatic masklike face with wide eyes, a playful tongue, and radiating motifs gives the turtle a strong ceremonial presence. Each flipper is painted with crisp geometric forms