Coyote Woman's Journal: The Bananaleaf Series

Friday, March 5, 2010

The Bananaleaf Series

Painting: BLS: Wild Horses--gouache by Mitzi Linn

A painting for all my sisters. Celebrating the spiritual nature of women for International Women's Day. Sisterhood is powerful. Let's honor our beautiful feminine planet and her creations.

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cathyceilMarch 16, 2010 at 6:06 PM
YEA TO ALL THE GRANDMOTHERS, MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS AND TO OUR BEAUTIFUL MOTHER EARTH. HO!
love you mitzi
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Coyote Woman Reviews her first 50 Years--painting by Mitzi Linn

Mitzi's Magical Paintings in Gouache

Natural beauty has always inspired and nurtured me. I express that beauty in paintings of symbolic landscapes alluding to actual places on the planet. The warm, vibrant colors I use energize the viewer’s spirit. I paint human bodies as part of landscapes because we humans are part of the earth. I think of them as sacred landscapes.
Living in Oaxaca, Mexico, inspired me to paint seriously. I had to paint my impressions and feelings inspired by that ancient, culturally rich area. It was in Oaxaca I rediscovered that quality of life that allowed me time to really look at things, take them in, absorb them, and interact internally with them. My paintings come from that interaction of self and world. Many of my series of paintings were birthed in Oaxaca--the Oaxacascapes, the Day of the Dead Series and the tropical landscapes, the Banana Leaf Series.
Spending time in New Mexico, Arizona and other parts of the Southwest near the border inspired the “Borderlands Series”. I try to communicate that the Border region with Mexico includes the same cultures--Native American and Hispanic in similar landscapes. People, cultures and objects native to this continent flowed through this region since time immemoriable.
I paint in gouache, a non-plastic water color. It is a traditional medium used historically by many fine artists including Chagall, Rivera, and others. I am mostly self taught as a painter and developed my own way of using gouache over time.
Interest in Ancient American cultures, studies of African Dance, Tantric Art, practicing Tibetan Buddhist and general study of symbols and mythology gives me a deep understanding of multi-cultural and universal images. I honor the Feminine as the source of my inspiration, and spiritual feminism as the basis the Bananaleaf Series and Womantrees Dancing.

Books and Blogs

The Ancient Americas Breaking News
website by Micheal Ruggeri

Maya Cosmos--Three Thousand years on the Shaman's Path
by David Freidel*Linda Schele*Joy Parker

The Taste of Tortillas--30 Years of Adventures in Chiapas (a short memoir by my close friend, Kiki.)
by Kiki Suarez http://www.kikitheartist.com/

Photos by Gabriel Suarez
www.gabrielsuarezphoto.com

Our Lady of Guadalupe
Edited by Mirabai Starr
www.mirabaistarr.com
Blog
http://www.ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/

Long Life, Honey in the Heart
Martin Prechtel
www.floweringmountain.com

Unpublished Manuscripts by Mitzi Linn

Mi Querida Oaxaca
A collection of stories, journals, poems and images from living in Oaxaca part-time over the past 20 years.

We Put Our Bones Together
An edited collection of poems from several decades. The chapbook moves from highly personal poems to those with a philosophical/spiritual perspective. Some poems in the blog are in this collection

Wild Wisdom Highway
A group of stories from my various lifetimes within this life. It is a kind of memoir, where stories collage and interact with each other. In process.

Coyote Woman's Journal

Friday, March 5, 2010

The Bananaleaf Series

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Mitzi Linn's Gallery on Facebook

"Wild Wisdom Highway"-- A memoir type blog by Mitzi Linn

Information about Mitzi's artwork

Womantrees Dancing: Divas--by Mitzi Linn

Coyote Woman Reviews her first 50 Years--painting by Mitzi Linn

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera Return

Contact Mitzi about her art

H.H. The Dalai Lama

Remembering the Guru (poem)

Blog Archive

El Nahual Folkart--Gallery and Blog

Coffee is my best friend--Kiki

Story about Reyna Mendoza

Dreaming New Mexico

Earth Song

Mitzi at Opening of exhibition "Following the Feathered Serpent"

Mitzi's Magical Paintings in Gouache

Coyote Woman's Tree of Life

New apartment photo

Line of the Spirit Weaving--Design by Richard Enzer

Line of the Spirit and Richard Enzer

Photo of Mitzi in San Cristobal 2009

Reyna buying ingredients for sopa in the Teotitlan Market

Liliana Mendoza Rios Weaving a Rug.

Tito Mendoza and Ale Rios in the US ( El Nahual Gallery in Oaxaca)

Pumpkin Carving in Oaxaca

Tea Time

Grave in Oaxaca City cemetery for Day of the Dead

Altar at Edmundo Montano family

Tapete de Arena--Sand Painting

Day of the Dead: Adam and Eve--painting by Mitzi Linn

Day of the Dead Altar at Maude Kerns(Eugene), 2003

Frida's Salsa

Guadelupe: the Corn Dancer--painting by Mitzi Linn

Mexico Mix

Day of the Dead Altar in Eugene for Migrant Workers in 1997

Frida's Bouquet

Amor Sin Palabras by Mitzi Linn

Mitzi on way to Altamont Concert

Tehuanas in parade for Guelaguetza in Oaxaca 2011

Santo Domingo cultural center in Oaxaca

Abigail Mendoza weaving.

Modern Mayan Fashion from Zinacantan Chiapas

Lila Downs

Flowering Womantree (Casahautes)

A beautiful feast

Fruit Stall at the Benito Juarez Market

My Mother, Mabel, as a young woman

My dear friend Alicia with homemade chocolate at her restuarant "El Descanso" in Teotitlan.

Medicine Mountains Talking--painting by Mitzi Linn

El Nahual en El Dia de los Muertos

Links to sites I follow

Bugambillas

Horselovers--painting by Mitzi Linn

Mitzi Linn in San Francisco 1969

Desert Inspiration

Beneath the Peak

White House Ruins

Waterhorse (Painting by Mitzi Linn

Womanscape--painting by Mitzi Linn

Teotitlan del Valle's Church

Feathered Serpent climbs the Tree of Life--First Fruits (corn)

Calla Lillies in Blue Vase

Books and Blogs

Unpublished Manuscripts by Mitzi Linn

Followers

Artwork available for purchase