Stella Salas' Art

  As I question myself what is "to be an artist", my curiosity take my skills into another level to experiment with different media.  All this for the sake to express my emotions or ideas in a new way. Embroidery has been a subject I find exciting and beautiful, and since a few years ago, I've been playing with the possibilities of illustration and embroidery. In more or less successful outcomes, this post is dedicated to my favorite try-outs which I separate in three different categories. Coeur, watercolours, inks & thread on paper by Salas, E. (2020) Embroidery illustrations by Salas, E. These illustrations are a few examples of how by incorporating a few strings and patterns of embroidery as part the illustration, can pop out the main idea or feeling.  Even if it's just to add a bit of colour, or mere experimentation in my sketchbooks, I enjoy the process and the results. Embroidery photography These photos were taken by me in 2008-2009, in my hometown in Mexic...

  The second part of my MA's final project is a series of illustrations about the syncretism of Aztec cults/religions and the Christianism brought by Spanish conquers to the Americas in approx. 1512.   The arrival of the Spaniards was a prophecy in the Maya’s cosmology; mistaken as divine beings, their aggressive arrival was not only welcomed by the natives, but also several indigenous peoples like the Totonacs, Otomis and Nahuas made alliance with Hernan Cortes troops to take advances in war against the Empire of the Aztecs.  There were many religions amongst the natives, but all of them have common points such as the worship of the nature, the God Sun, the Mother Earth, and the promised saviour (Quetzalcoatl) who was born from Coatlicue, the Virgin mother of Gods. So, there was no bigger coincidence that the Christians have the same triad, and this is how the acceptance of Christianity was understandable amongst the natives, which the majority were the faithful indigeno...