Mata Ortiz is a village in Chihuahua where Juan Quezada Celado reverse-engineered a dead ceramic tradition from potsherds, then taught it to everyone around him. The pots are coil-built without a wheel, burnished with a stone, and painted with a brush of four or five human hairs.

That brush is the design system. Line weight carries the whole vocabulary — hairline, hatch, solid — banded into registers that wrap a curved wall, with quiet unpainted clay above and below. Nothing floats, nothing glazes.