This is my version of a mythological figure, the goddess Yemaya, from the Afro-Caribbean pantheon. She is one of my favorite Goddesses.
A couple of years ago, when my life was all crazy, and I felt all funny at the job I was at, one of my coworkers took me to see a Santero- a Puerto [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Art and Words’
November 10, 2008
Yemaya
September 19, 2008
Friday. Just Another Day.
It really is, in the working class feminist’s world. I was getting every other weekend off but in order to accommodate some of the activisty-stuff I had to shuffle my schedule around in such a way that it looks like I’ll be doing second shift, weekends, without 2 days off in a row- quite possibly [...]
September 10, 2008
Happy Wednesday!
I have some new art journal stuff but the problem is that there are so many things plugged into our USB hub right now, there is no room to plug in the scanner.
This is the only problematic part of sharing a computer… there are times when you wanna just unplug and replug stuff but you [...]
September 5, 2008
Blog about my Dad.
Sorta.
Not much in the way of words, but I made this a while back when I was thinking about him and I been thinking about him this past week a lot too.
It’s a calavarita- Mexican-folk inspired, like a Day-0f-The-Dead sugar skull. I lived in Guanajuato, Mexico for 6 months back in 2002, and was lucky [...]
August 30, 2008
Art Journal Stuff
Since I’ve been working on this angel thing I haven’t really had the space in my room to whoop out my painting journal and do anything new this week. I have the weekend off, though, and my plan is to make some progress on that darn thing.
The wings are vexing me.
IN the meantime, though, I [...]
August 24, 2008
Process, process…
So I said I’d post some pics of the artsy process for y’all to look at. I got this new painting I am working on and it’s inspired by my love . Anyhoo, I’ll be adding some collage elements to it and I’m not sure exactly how that will look, but i can [...]
August 21, 2008
The Storm
Fay is really venting right now. So much that here in (normally) sunny Orlando, we have these crazy winds and rain that you just can’t believe unless you’re from around here, which I’m not, so I’m having a hard time. I think Fay’s just upset, maybe it’s a little overwhelming, what with thinking she’d be [...]
