Daisy Ramirez: Seed Pot Mata Ortiz horse figure Painted in radiant shades of

Painted in radiant shades of lavender

The painting process begins

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Daisy Ramirez: Seed Pot Mata Ortiz horse figure Painted in radiant shades ofThe 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