Ancient Peruvian Art has a way of presenting the fantastic, as it were an everyday occurrence. With imagination and wit, the ceramic art leads us on a wondrous journey through the unexpected. The exact meaning of such sculptures—whether magic or comic—has often been obscured by time; we can only marvel at their inventiveness and their sureness of touch. Here, a figure seated cross-legged like an Egyptian scribe wears the head of a Coatimundi. This is possibly someone in the throes of a drug-induced dream, a man identifying himself with the creatures of the wild. The broad smile at the end of his long snout seems to warn us not take anything we see too seriously. Across the centuries, we enter a world where enchantment rules over logic. - (PF.1422)