Scarlet Macaw Habitat

Flaunting bright red feathers with blue and yellow, a scarlet macaw alights amid green leaves. By Blanca Padilla, this bright mobile celebrates Costa Rica's varied fauna. The artisan harvests the cabuya fiber she herself grows to transform it into sheets of tightly entwined fibers. She dyes the fibers, cuts the shapes by hand and suspends them beneath a pinewood ring.