The man which made Ecuador’s solid wood Tigua masks well-known
The man which made Ecuador’s solid wood Tigua masks well-known TIGUA, Ecuador – Julio Toaquiza Tigasi sits at his easel in the smaller roadside memorial, painting the mountains that sit outside his windows. They are painting the face area of the wolf growing through the rock structures from inside the mountainside, making use of wolf’s eyes, two much lighter coloured rocks, peering on right above the group of woods bellow the mountain. “The wolf usually rests indeed there,” the 73-year-old artist told Mongabay. […]