Showing Their True Colors
Kudos to the Taos News and Jeans Pineda for revealing what I have been trying to expose all along – the Taos News is not a public service vehicle – it’s a business. And who are their most prominent advertisers? THE REAL ESTATE COMPANIES. And the real estate companies profit by driving gentrification. So we […]
Making Art for Mother Earth
Someone wise recently reminded me that the most important religious festival on the pre-Hispanic Mexica calendar in Tenochitlan was Flor y Canto – Flower and Song. Nothing, the Mexica knew, pleased the gods more than art. So they came from all over what is now the Republic, the poets, feather workers, gold smiths, jade carvers, […]
Where Poetry Meets Science
We now know genetic memory is real. Epigenetics and brain science indicate we inherit the emotional experiences of our ancestors, and those experiences come to rest in our bodies and oral traditions. If an entire community undergoes the traumatic experience of conquest, colonization and loss of the land, trauma is both individual and collective. The […]
Fogon de Adobe
On exhibit at the Martinez Hacienda until November 1. This is an homage to my beloved, deceased zoquetero of many years, Chris Brito. I was thinking of all the fireplaces my daughter and I have built together while I was painting this, but the figure on the left would not become a woman – no […]