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 Wolf Woman, She Who Knows | La Loba, La Que Sabe

   They say she lives among the rotten granite slopes in Tarahumara Indian territory. They say she is buried outside Phoenix near a well. She is said to have been traveling south to Monte Alban in a burnt out car with the back window shot out. She is said to stand by the highway near El Paso, or ride shotgun with truckers to Morelia, Mexico, or that she has been sighted walking to market above Oaxaca with strangely formed boughs of firewood on her back. She is called by many names: La Huesera, Bone Woman, La Trapera, The Gatherer, and La Loba, Wolf Woman.

As told by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, PhD, Women Who Run With the Wolves​.

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Tango at Tiradito

Combining the festive atmosphere of El Dia de Los Muertos with the folktale of the disobedient young lady who meets the Devil at a community dance, with Tucson's famous All Soul's Procession, this painting is just for fun.

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The Visitation / La Visitacion

Probably the most well known throughout the Americas is La Llorona, The Weeping Woman.  The quintessential wicked female and the subject of horror movies, she is also synonymous with La Malinche, the doomed indigenous woman who is known as the Ultimate Betrayer of the Mexican people.  To me, La Llorona is the grieving archetype who bears the collective burden of the countless demonized females throughout history.  I wanted to give her tormented spirit some rest and redemption.

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