I lifted this cheerful foto from Oaxaca Turismo. The regional dances are enchanting and varied.
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"Wild Wisdom Highway"-- A memoir type blog by Mitzi Linn
Clik on the foto of Mitzi reading Tarot to go to Wild Wisdom Highway, my blog with stories and poems from the various paths, backroads and highways of my life. My goal was to have an enriching spirit life this time around. You know, really live in the present.
Womantrees Dancing: Divas--by Mitzi Linn
Painting available at Sattva Gallery. Click on painting to go to Sattva Gallery, Mitzi's work under paintings.
Coyote Woman Reviews her first 50 Years--painting by Mitzi Linn
Coyote Woman is looking in the mirror communicating with her animal alter ego. They are reviewing the woman's interests, activities and beliefs of the first half of her lifetime. She stands on a carpet meant to evoke the Mexican boardgame La Lotteria but it is really a tapete of her personal and Mexican images. In the background are the mountains and vegetation of the Oaxaca Valley. The feathered serpent, fire and water serpents, serve as a borders.
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera Return
Altar and costumes to evoke the Istmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca
H.H. The Dalai Lama
Blessings for all
El Nahual Folkart--Gallery and Blog
Click on weaving to go to their Blog
Coffee is my best friend--Kiki
Click on image for Kiki's Blog
Story about Reyna Mendoza
Click on photo to go to Mija Chronicles Blog by Lesley Tellez
Dreaming New Mexico
Painting for sale at Sattva Gallery. Click on it to go to Sattva online, Mitzi's work under paintings.
Mitzi at Opening of exhibition "Following the Feathered Serpent"
Artist is wearing her favorite Tehuana huipil
Coyote Woman's Tree of Life
New apartment photo
My apartment is like a little gallery or museum. Fun to live in.
Line of the Spirit Weaving--Design by Richard Enzer
Click on this image to read about Richard and the Line of the Spirit
Photo of Mitzi in San Cristobal 2009
Kiki took this photo using my throwaway camera.
Reyna buying ingredients for sopa in the Teotitlan Market
Foto by Jesus Canadiense (Bill Blair)
Liliana Mendoza Rios Weaving a Rug.
She's 11 years old. Her father is Tito Mendoza, a master weaver.
Tito Mendoza and Ale Rios in the US ( El Nahual Gallery in Oaxaca)
Participating in textile conference Minnesota
Pumpkin Carving in Oaxaca
By Sven Borough at a restaurant
Tea Time
Mosiac by Jane Kelly
Grave in Oaxaca City cemetery for Day of the Dead
Popular art provided by a famiy.
Altar at Edmundo Montano family
Day of the Dead celebration
Tapete de Arena--Sand Painting
Another art form for Todos Santos
Day of the Dead: Adam and Eve--painting by Mitzi Linn
Here are humanity's parents beneath a cactus tree, talking to a serpent. I painted this as an altar piece, including many symbols--the sun, the moon, the ancestors skeletons and marigolds for the Day of the Dead. Inspired by many different things.
Day of the Dead Altar at Maude Kerns(Eugene), 2003
Created by Mitzi Linn--called Pensando en la Muerte.
Frida's Salsa
A collage by Mitzi Linn
Guadelupe: the Corn Dancer--painting by Mitzi Linn
The Virgin of Guadelupe here is represented by a Dancer in a handwoven huipil. She appears from outer space, enclosed in a mantle of light, dancing with and offering the first three ears of sacred corn from the harvest. Four open white flowers in the four directions represent the souls of ancestors who are now stars. Being a virgin goddess she is shown dancing in the sliver of the new moon, as it appears in Oaxaca.
Mexico Mix
Collage by Mitzi Linn
Day of the Dead Altar in Eugene for Migrant Workers in 1997
Mitzi Linn and Vicky Ayers at Due Fine Arts
Frida's Bouquet
Collage by Mitzi Linn
Amor Sin Palabras by Mitzi Linn
The Teotitlan bus rushes thru the Campo Santo.
Mitzi on way to Altamont Concert
**Spaced out** foto by Martha Olson
- Mitzi Linn
- I fell in love with Oaxaca Mexico in 1982 and had the good fortune to delve deeply into the culture, art and spirit of this beautiful place over the past decades. The quality of light, the friendships with Oaxacans, the fiestas, the customs, the folk art and weavings, the music, the fine art, the cuisine, the ancient indigenous ruins/sites, and the breathtaking vistas--all inspired me to start painting again. Study of myths, religions, ethnic art, ancient cultures and history integrated with initiations and practice of the Mystic Arts, Buddhism and Spiritual Feminism informs the images and symbols I use. I received a BA in Liberal Arts from Hanover College.
Tehuanas in parade for Guelaguetza in Oaxaca 2011
Those beautiful Zapotec women from the Istmus of Tehuanatepec
Santo Domingo cultural center in Oaxaca
Foto by Jose Armando Jimenez
Abigail Mendoza weaving.
Abi has won prizes for her work and has exhibited internationally
Modern Mayan Fashion from Zinacantan Chiapas
Foto by Chip Morris
Lila Downs
Click on foto to go to her website
Flowering Womantree (Casahautes)
Painting by Mitzi Linn Womantree is flowering, her flowers are her faces. She is part of a tropical dreamscape full of life and sensuality.
A beautiful feast
Watercolor by Katherine Corbett, 1993
Fruit Stall at the Benito Juarez Market
Enjoy this visual fruit salad.
My Mother, Mabel, as a young woman
Everyday is Mother's Day
My dear friend Alicia with homemade chocolate at her restuarant "El Descanso" in Teotitlan.
Cacao beans, cinnamon, sugar, ground together makes fresh chocolate for fiestas. It's a sacred drink, served as hot chocolate to people invited to family celebrations. (photo by Karla Rice)
Medicine Mountains Talking--painting by Mitzi Linn
The mother/father sacred mountains of Oaxaca are discussing making medicine for their children, the humans and others. Below them is a carpet of stylised stars, the milky way and venus, in what is an abstration of a frieze at nearby Mitla. Perhaps their medicine is a sacred song or chant that calls the ancient knowers to help them find the right medicine for our modern world.
El Nahual en El Dia de los Muertos
Ale and Liliana in front of their altar
Bugambillas
Remembering Oaxaca
Horselovers--painting by Mitzi Linn
Will summer ever come to Oregon?
Mitzi Linn in San Francisco 1969
Dreamtime--time to reinvent myself.
Desert Inspiration
Painting by Mitzi Linn
Beneath the Peak
Painting by Mitzi Linn
White House Ruins
The one place non-Navajo tourists can visit without a guide at the bottom of Canyon de Chelly
Waterhorse (Painting by Mitzi Linn
The blue horse is the Navajo horse of healing, water, spirit, and tourquoise.
Womanscape--painting by Mitzi Linn
Like many of my painting series, the Banana Leaf Series started in Oaxaca. Here women's bodies are part of the earth.
Teotitlan del Valle's Church
The Spanish constructed their church on top of the ancient Zapotec Temple complex. The Zapotecs settled the Oaxaca valley in 6000 B.C. Teotitlan (Xaguire) was one of the first pueblos and seat of early Zapotec rulers.
Feathered Serpent climbs the Tree of Life--First Fruits (corn)
Gouache painting inspired by meeting the Feathered Serpent at various sacred old sites in Mexico, including Teotihuacan, Tonina, Palenque, and Mitla
Calla Lillies in Blue Vase
Painting by Mitzi Linn
So beautiful!!!
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