2009
from scraswel@email.arizona.edu
to almalopez310@gmail.com
date Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:09 PM
subject Question on acquiring copies
mailed-by email.arizona.edu
Ms. Lopez,
I am a student at the University of Arizona majoring in Women's Studies. In
my Chicana Feminist Thought class we did some work on interpreting "Our Lady".
I am so taken by the complexity and layers of your work I would like to have a
print of my own but it seems you are not a commercialized artist! Is there
anywhere or anyway that I can acquire one of your works? Thank you for your
time.
Sincerely,
Samantha Craswell
from benjamin ybarra
to almalopez310@gmail.com
date Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 4:23 PM
subject Our Lady
Or should I say the Spaniards Lady.
Several years ago (15) I saw a little photo in our local news paper. Somebody named Lopez had painted a Virgin de Guadalupe coming out of her shell totally naked. I've saved that little photo because I new then that there was hope for us:Latinos,Hispanics,Chicanos,Mexican-Americans,Indies, the list would fill the rest of this page. I hope there is controversy. It proves that we're not dead! We have so lable ourselves or have been labeled, that the only image left for us is that soup can of Aandy Warhol. It is precisly what you are doing that Art is all about. Art is not just about patting ourselves in the back:telling ourselves how great we are. Enough with the propaganda! Thank god and the Virgin de Guadalupe that there are Artist with guts(guevos) like you. Keep up the good work! You can count on me....benjamin ybarra
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