South Texan fine artist Roberto Benavidez gives wing to the craft of papier mâché. Inspired by 16th-century paintings and multicultural art, he creates stunning piñatas of birds and other creatures.

Roberto Benavidez’s stunning piñatas reveal the form’s hidden history of religious colonialism. Beautiful, funny, and political, they are meticulous works of art, inspired by Hieronymous Bosch.