Stella Salas' Art

Lilith, (3 different views/zooms), graphite and ink on paper by Salas, E. (2020) On the 8th day of quarantine in Paris I wrote this.  I had been thinking about this previously and since the obnoxious amount of extra time, I decided to put it in words now. I made a drawing about the myth of Lilith, the 1st woman. And I don’t know, if I have a voice, I want to use it to make people think. So… Keep reading for the whole thing or stop here, you might learn about a thing or two.  The distorted mythology surrounding Lilith, represents the ultimate tale of patriarchy painting women’s sexuality as something dark and demonic. In almost all religious texts, Lilith is depicted as a demon rather than a Goddess. Her archetype has become a warning signal to scare women who wished to continue praying to the sacred feminine and honoring their own bodies as holy. The original story is loaded with patriarchal and Machism crap, which is hugely and tragically embedded in our culture t...

    Calaveras and Death in Mexican folklore My representation of "Calaveras" by Jose Guadalupe Posada (1852 - 1913).☠️ Skeletons and death are repeatedly present in the Mexican folklore and art as part of our pre-Hispanic roots and culture. Keep reading for more about this👇🏼 La huesuda, (cropped and original image), ink and graphite on paper by Salas, E. (2020)   Engraving by Jose G. Posadas, 1913   The Death is called in several funny names in the Mexican culture, most of them are euphemisms to hide our fear towards death itself (like in my drawing, I used the name "La huesuda", which means "The bony").  This is, however, not entirely truth; the relationship of the Mexican with the death is about "flirt and seduction", an "ironic intimacy" to remind us that death is for all of us without discrimination, thus there is a certain familiar trust and we celebrate it with irony (poetry, literature, art, music, legends, movies, ...