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It is nearly 1 a.m. and the celebration down the mountain in the village of San Juan Cosala has just begun. The saint day of the Virgin of Guadalupe is the biggest celebration of the year in this town. The church is filled with flowers, bottle rockets have been going off all evening, and a band is loudly playing in the town square. This will go on all night and all of tomorrow. The pieces above were all made by me over the years, other than the one on the bottom left side.
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Good work, Judy
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Lovely.
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I love the work on the bottom right — what is the size of that one?
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The Madonna figure is 2 or 3 inches high, I believe. I have the beach Madonnas I made all packed away. This was my favorite. I think I made about 13 of them that year–all different. I thought I’d done a blog on them but I can’t find one so must have been in my imagination.
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The Madonna was as I found her…the white on the wood is natural.
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But for the white on the wood, you would likely not have seen her ! She’s beautiful!
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I’m amazed — the perspective of the photo makes her look much bigger!
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Yes I know. I think the wood I placed her on is about six or seven inches long. If I find it I’ll photograph it with something to show perspective. I may have sold it, though.
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Those are amazing. I guess I’ll not go out because the fireworks are bothersome but just gaze at these. Thanks for sharing!
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Are you in Mexico, Lynn?
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I just turned on the TV, and found a parade, costumes, floats, and all, through Olvera Street, the original street of Los Angeles — they are calling it the Guadalupe Mass, and the history is being narrated as a poem, accompanied by spurts of music as well. How typically “old Los Angeles”!
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We used to go to Olvera Street when I lived in L.A. I believe I even gave a poetry reading there once.
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I loved Olvera Street, but it became very touristy, then turned into a rather unsavory place near the train station! It’s years since I’ve been there!
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Me, too.Maybe 40 years. Egads.
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But you ive a little far away to go there for a shopping jaunt! I don’t have that excuse!
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And if truth were told, neither of us really needs an excuse!!!
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Very true! -:)
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