Bird Box [] My Folk Art Treasure

Published February 28, 2022

by Kim Malcolm

If you are a Norteno living in San Miguel de Allende, you either know Susan Page or you will at some point. Susan put San Miguel on the literary map when she founded the San Miguel Writer’s Conference in 2004. She and her husband, Mayer, also travel all over Mexico to collect Mexican folk art. This is the story of a wooden box I saw in one of their galleries.

The box was old and colorful and painted on four sides with birds. It made me crazy with happiness, so when I saw Susan yesterday, I mentioned it. She explained that it was originally made to hold puppets and came from a remote village in Puebla state. Then we started talking about something else.

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