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Beneath the paint

November 02, 2011

Hidden within the brush strokes of Frida Kahlo?s paintings lays the story of the iconic artist herself. The intensity of her emotions, her beliefs, her political convictions, her reality. A reality which defies easy description, being both intimate and powerful. Both colorful and dark. Both traditional and without conventions. Frida Kahlo painted to transcend immense pain - suffering from polio at 6 and a life changing bus accident at 18,...

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Day of the Dead | Celebrating the circle of life

November 02, 2011

In Mexico?s ancient civilizations, death held a significant place. Not as the end of life, but as a continuation of it. To the Aztecs and other pre-Hispanic people, life was a dream and only in dead did they become truly awake. Duality was honored as something dynamic, death not separated from pain or celebration, wealth not from poverty, and the ninth month of the Aztec Solar Calendar, the beginning of...

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