{"product_id":"serpent-in-the-garden","title":"Serpent in the Garden","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e1 of 1 | Paul Henry Devoti — Atlantis Studio, my studio home in the pueblo of San Juan de Oriente, Nicaragua\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the ancient Aztec cosmological calendar, twenty sacred symbols mapped the universe — the movements of stars, the turning of seasons, the invisible agreements between man and the cosmos. The Serpent is among them. Eternal, coiling, knowing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Serpent in the Garden, Paul Henry Devoti brings that 5,000-year-old symbolic language into living dialogue with the natural world. The serpent winds through a field of all twenty Aztec day-signs, rendered in meticulous hand-carved relief across the surface of this large-format ceramic vessel. Against that ancient grammar, butterflies emerge — shaved directly into the slip clay and painted in luminous contemporary metallic pigments — representing the garden, Mother Earth, and the fragile beauty the cosmos holds in its orbit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe technique is uncompromising. Every symbol is scratched and etched by hand into unfired clay in Paul's studio home in the pueblo of San Juan de Oriente, Nicaragua — a village that has been hand-forming ceramic art for over 2,500 years. Contemporary metallic pigments are then worked into the carved channels, making the surface shift between shadow and light depending on where you stand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a one-of-a-kind work. There is no edition. There is no reproduction. When it finds its collector, the conversation between the ancient sky and the living earth finds its permanent home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 12 × 9 × 9 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMedium:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ceramic with slip-clay shaving, hand engraving, and contemporary metallic pigment\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOrigin:\u003c\/strong\u003e Atlantis Studio — studio home of Paul Henry Devoti, pueblo of San Juan de Oriente, Nicaragua\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 of 1\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantis Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46810463207561,"sku":null,"price":1295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0327\/6049\/6265\/files\/1E441EDF-5F5A-4B36-9A95-7FB158AF971C.jpg?v=1780444907","url":"https:\/\/atlantistudio.com\/products\/serpent-in-the-garden","provider":"Atlantis Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}