Etoile Ocre

This design was inspired by murals in the Convento Dominico de la Natividad in Tepoztlán, near Mexico City. Dating back to the 16th century, shortly after the Spanish conquest, the convent’s breathtaking murals in sanguine and charcoal seem to contain the whole genealogy of Hispanic ornament, with a Moorish geometry filtered through Spanish Catholicism and rendered in the pigments of the New World.