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The World of Frida - Bedford Gallery - July 8 - Sept 16, 2018

8/16/2018

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I invite you to explore my process as I created 
​Casa Azul - “Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly.” Frida Kahlo
​My first 37 years as an artist were as a dancer, choreographer & healer. I have worked with many people in pain. As a massage therapist, I have felt many different bodies, spines, hands, feet. Now, as a clay artist, spines sometimes subconsciously flow from my hands.
 
I visited Casa Azul in 2013 photographing its vivid blue walls & green trim. Like many of us, I love Frida’s art. I imagine she was able to sustain & be true to her self, creatively, politically & sexually because of her art.
 
When I began, Casa Azul, I looked at x-rays & photos of her broken collarbone, bolts in her spine, her studio, HER…painting a hammer & sickle on her body cast while trapped in it. I felt her true ‘house’, was her rib cage & heart.  And of course, her arms, which, when faced with amputation of her leg, took flight.
click for details: Bedford Gallery 
Links to videos and blogs about my work and the Bedford Gallery:

Casa Azul at The World of Frida from OverDressed for Life - blog
City of Walnut Creek video of World of Frida
Blog by Deborah Adeyanju about my solo show - Fall 2017
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