October 2003

Blues concert, Mexican Folk Art display, Getty with Rafael, Olivera Street at Haloween, Hollywood Cemetery at Haloween, East LA Art Gallery, Cultural Dancers, Lynda's Haloween Window Display

Outdoors blues concert in Santa Monica State Park		In October, we went to a mexican folk art exhibit at the Natural HIstory Museum. Some of the artists exhibited here, are very famous. Wooden carved jaguar.	Clay pot with cadavera (skeleton) motif
clay pot in ancient style	"Market" in clay	This is a "Trees of Life". The tree of life represents the cycles that life takes us through. There are also trees of death, which represent the new life that occurs after death.	This piece is made completely out of wax
This picture is made in traditional style out of bird feathers, glued to the paper with wax.	Tree of Life "Wedding"	Tree of death. The tree of death is often not very different from the tree of life, because it is believed that all the comforts of the present world exist in death.	Variation on the tree of life theme: Mole tree. Mole is a traditional mexican dish made with pepers and chocolate; clay