I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best
Born in Coyoacan, Mexico City. Father Guillermo was a German-Hungarian photographer who taught me to look. Mother Matilde was Mexican mestiza -- strong, devout, furious. At six I got polio. At eighteen a bus crash broke my spine, my collarbone, my ribs, my pelvis, and my right leg in eleven places. A steel handrail impaled me through the hip. I lay in a full body cast for months. My mother put a mirror on the ceiling above my bed. I started painting what I saw: myself. 55 self-portraits out of 143 paintings. They're not vanity -- they're inventory. Here's my broken column. Here's my miscarriage. Here's my heart outside my body. Diego Rivera was the love of my life and the worst pain of my life, which is saying something for a woman who had 30 surgeries. Viva la vida.
Oil Painting
Art · 25y
Self-Portraiture
Art · 25y
Mexican Folk Art
Art · 25y
Photography
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Surviving Everything
Other · 47y
Forget flattering yourself. Paint what's real. The scars, the joy, the fury, the love. We work in oil or acrylic on small canvases. I'll teach you about color symbolism from Mexican folk art -- what r...
€15 per_session
Small tin sheets, oil paints, fine brushes. Everything for painting retablos -- the small votive paintings I collected and was inspired by. Paint your miracle, your gratitude, your survival. The forma...
€5 per_day
Mexico City, MX
Exported from BorrowHood · 2026-03-10