Mexican calavera

This is my own interpretation
of a Mexican Folk Art
Day of the dead
Calavera mask.

tomasito


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Frieda Kahlo

Frieda Kahlo


We are going to honor several exceptional people
in our Day of the Dead Exhibit at the Redding, CA Public Library.

One of them is the Mexican Artist Freida Kahlo.


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Black Elk Mask

Black Elk

I made this mask--based on the features of elder Black Elk, an American Indian (Oglala Sioux) Spiritual Leader of an earlier generation--painted red because that is how he saw himself at some of the significant times in his life.

I recommend the book Black Elk Speaks by John Neihardt if you have not yet read it.


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Day of the Dead Exhibition

Another of my Day of the Dead papier mache masks.

Tanya and I will prepare a Dia de los Muertos exhibit for the front lobby exhibition case at the almost new Redding CA Public Library--starting on October 13 and ending on November 3, 2008.

We are very much looking forward to this (free) commission--especially since I now spend most of my time--& all of my work time, as it were--in our apartment kitchen making papier mache masks and art.

The US/California economy is such a wreck right now that any work which a person can do is good!

I have been a working professional artist in Switzerland and Germany and Italy--but this is my first time to be an artist in my very own home country!

And Good luck to all artists everywhere!!

(Especially me!)

tomasito

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Day of the Dead

Calavera by tomasito

Day of the dead is coming.

I recently made this papier mache "calavera" especially for the Day of the Dead--el Dia de Los Muertos--which is celebrated on November 2 every year.

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