Yesterday at work I was having a discussion with a customer at work about my art exhibition. I described to him my intentions to create intense, colourful works with a powerful, overwhelming effect on the viewer's senses. I told him how I was using bright coloured wool to create swirl patterns, amongst other found materials such as fur, beads, and different fabrics.

He referred me to a group of works done by the Huichol Indians of Mexico.

http://www.indigoarts.com/gallery_huicholart1.html

of a variety of ritual arts long practiced by the Huichol. The Huichol are known for the symbolic patterns of plants and animal spirits, which they lavish on their cross-stitch embroidery, xukuri beaded gourd votive bowls, and a variety of prayer objects and crosses woven of sticks, feathers, yarn and other materials, which they called nierika."