Mucuy Bolles "Bird Head Tripod". Stoneware thrown on the wheel with hand sculpted bird heads. shino glaze, fired in a gas kiln to cone 10 reduction, with woven pine needles and feathers. “I strive to create a piece where movement, sound, and culture merge into a balanced whole, and ancient knowledge can be reborn through a new vision in the present,” says the Komchen, Mexico native. But even more than that, she “hopes to infuse my work with the mysterious playfulness of my Mayan ancestors.”