The Day – Handmade dolls inhabit two worlds | News from southeastern Connecticut
Barry, Amy J. “Handmade dolls inhabit two worlds”, The Day [New London]. March 19, 2013, pp D1-D2 Starry Night, 2007, Oil on panel, 27” x 33” Self-portrait with…
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The Crow
Once I dreamed about a hybrid creature, mix of a girl and a crow, her face was human, somehow I could make her features bird-like, design black clothing, even giving her wings. Also she had to be very elegant. Una vez…
Skeleton Chronicles
As I said before, whenever I start missing Mexico I make Frida dolls or skeletons, you already meet the Fridas, now meet the skeleton, skeleton children! Como dije antes, cada vez que empiezo a extranar Mexico hago munecas de Frida…
Self portrait with thorn necklace and dead hummingbird
Self portrait with thorn necklace and dead hummingbird/Autorretrato con collar de espinas y colibri muertoFrida Kalho, 1940 This painting is very impressing, it talks about Frida facing divorce, loneliness, and physical pain; later she remarried Diego Rivera in December 1940.…
Autorretrato con monos
Self portait with monkeys, 1943 / Autorretrato con monos, 1943 This was one of the 5 pictures I chose for making a Frida Kalho doll -with monkey dolls-. She painted herself in the company of four monkeys, for Frida they…
The Frida Series
I started thinking about the possibility of making dolls out of paintings. The first one I did was the Frida Kalho painting “The two Fridas” . The dolls were separated and are now in private collections in Mexico, they did not stay together, sometimes…
My former work
I was a painter before my baby was born, but just after getting pregnant I could not tolerate the smell of the turpentine and oil painting. Also I thought about the safety of my baby, then I quit painting and…