Lady Catrina: a tiny shoppe

Monkey Skulls and Lizard Paws

2011-01-02T01:24:00.000-08:00

Quiapo. The Church of the Black Nazarene.
Fortune tellers, fans with prayers, glass beads, lizard paws, monkey skulls, green moss with black crosses in glass bottles. Just no photography inside the cathedral. Photos coming after the 19th. I wouldn't be me if I wouldn't be genius.
Happy New Year.

Lexicon of the Third Eye

2010-12-02T18:49:00.000-08:00

During my initial years of artistic exploration I wondered what makes mankind create art. As the years went by the questions was there as well as a beginning of an answer. This manuscript is a beginning of what I hope to be a pyschological art analysis tome.

The premise of pyschoanalysis is from my understanding rooted in genetic (i.e. emotional) memory. To verify an emotional reactions such as fear to a spider is spurred by subconcious settings in the human mind. We react either with joy or fear based upon our own feelings towards something. In this case I would argue that if you are afraid of spiders you may also be undergoing stressful situations with money or inheritance as that is the genetic memory of the visual representation.

I would be happy to send you a digital copy if you so desire for a fee of zero dollars.

Bon Anniversaire!

2010-12-01T22:30:00.000-08:00

I shall be flying out of the country until January 19th, 2011. When I come back I shall be 28. I hope that the holy days bring you much happiness and delight. Bon voyage!

K.L.E.N

2010-12-01T22:26:00.000-08:00

$20,000.00

Theatre V

2010-12-01T22:20:00.000-08:00

$30,000.00

My Ruin

2010-12-01T22:18:00.000-08:00

$5,000.00

Sentence

2010-12-01T22:16:00.000-08:00

1,000.00

7th Day

2010-12-01T22:13:00.000-08:00

$7,000.00

Five

2010-12-01T22:10:00.000-08:00

$10,000.00

Priceless

2010-12-01T22:03:00.000-08:00

$20,000.00

mixed media

cabinet doors

Muerte contra mis enemigos

2010-12-01T22:00:00.000-08:00

Sailors Grave

$200.00

Prayers for protection and appeal for justice.

Que tienen huesos.

2010-12-01T21:56:00.000-08:00

Lady Luck

$200.00

Blessings for luck in court, gambling, glamour, lucky times, and petition to saints for early release of the incarcerated.

La Llama de Amor, del Inmaculado corazon de Maria Mictecacihutal

2010-12-01T21:44:00.000-08:00

True Love

$200.00

Blessing for a strong, wealthy marriage/partnership filled with blessings of romance, deep love, and a strong financial foundation to build a long lineage.

Welcome!

2010-12-01T10:07:00.000-08:00

Thank you for stopping by. You will find many items here that are handmade with love. You may also find relics I have acquired over time. Each is special.

A little history, you ask?
Lady Catrina is linked to Mexican folk lore. It is one of the many names for the Holy Spirit or Death. I choose Death as the embodiment of my work to remind me how sacred each moment is. How sacred the gifts are that we have. Gifts which we to give to the world and receive from the world. Lady Catrina is my guardian angel. She looks over my shoulder and makes sure I don't get into too much trouble. In honor of this gift from her to me, I give back the gift of the arts. My dream is to incorporate all art. Some art will be mine and some will belong to others. I promise to give credit where credit is due.

Why Death as inspiration?
Death is the cornerstone of existence. It is lasting emotional change. The process of coping with death leads to deep emotional revelation after which we gradually regenerate into a new life. By eliminating those aspects of our lives that we no longer need, by purging ourselves from undesirable habits, needs, concepts, beliefs and behaviors we find cleansing in our severed attachments. Through this metamorphosis we bring to us a catharsis which aids in the exposure of what is false. It is this exposure which refines.

Death is a stage where we can explore our hidden selves. Our compulsions, desires, drives all become bare as we cope with a passing. In a passing the masks of the living and the dead become removed and we are able to see the true persona. Healing we can then begin with questions addressing the intentions of the living and the dead. Questions bring insight, not answers.

Death teaches us awareness. It is through insight that this awareness can penetrate into the mysteries—the secret knowledge which it carries. By going down a road of discovery we adapt scientific methods as a way to cope with such an intimate journey. Death is a twin thread of this reality. By studying it, by examining the ceremonies around it, we begin to understand the religious and occult applications of this process. Even after we explore the burial ceremonies we come to understand that there is more to Death than mere ceremony.

With Death arrives a responsibility of dividing the ranks. Who is on what side? Whose side is correct? Who inherits what? What will be the restricted reality and who will rebel against it? Who will dissent in the schism that is created out of the event? Who will militantly support the status quo? The attitudes, behaviors and subversive reactions of people will align them into their new roles in the community after a Death. Some will become leaders. Others will become rebels. The rest will follow.

At the end of the struggle we find that we are left with the responsibility of living. We begin to understand that life is a loan. This recognition thrusts the self head first into our Deaths by living a life worth living. Strangely, worth can only be established by the individual that is loaned the right to live. We are encouraged to make wise choices. We are encouraged to build legacies. We must remember that we must build our lives upon the wealth of the human soul, upon the riches of the heart, upon the strength of the spirit of the mind. Only then can we truly realize a potential that is beyond Death.

Death is the major teacher of virtues. By taking away existence it provides us with the catalyst. As artists use representations of deities and God. These images help the viewer to gain and recognize the significance of the self in retrospect through emotional triggers. Through the evolution of our lives, through personal relationships we affect change. We record change in history, in music, dance, and art. Through change we are able to cherish the present moment and move into the next, and the next, and the next until we reach our resting place.

Applied Know-How:
If you would like more details on any items here please leave me a comment and I will write back as soon as I can. I have been doing much research into genetic memory and the human reactions to visual language so if you have a questions about something here or something you have and want a bigger explanation I would be more than happy to share the knowledge in my noodle.

As always: May your life be beautiful.

los hermano y hermana

2010-12-01T09:38:00.000-08:00

Man’s Ruin

$200.00

Prayers for protection in health, love, and avoidance of those things that injure our loved ones.

The devil and death are brother and sister. This saying applies to an old folktale in Mexico. The tale goes that death is always watching us at church through the windows of the cathedral. If she sees that someone is doing bad things she calls out to diabldo and tells him if we are sinning.