Sandee Manuel and Keikichi Honna make the journey from Oceanside to Tijuana to check out materials for a sculptural installation in the works for the CONSPIRE event on January 17th:
Today we met the first born of our 20 baby Jesuses – he’s pretty heavy for a newborn, pale and has empty eye sockets but otherwise pretty cute.
I’ve enclosed a few pics on our trek back to The U.S.
We encountered many churro vendors, juggling kids, and men carrying large hand-woven baskets. With every basket seller Keikichi would quietly chime in “Snake Charmer.”
-sandee
Wow! Hey, this brings pertinent ‘research’ memories. Some years ago, while returning to the US from helping out with some non-profit construction in TJ, I bought one of these ‘babies’. It was for a project of some design students of mine in LA. For their project, they had to cut it in half, and, to our surprise, the interior revealed an amalgamation of little statues of creatures and animals. Almost as if the maker of the statue had filled the being with a ‘landscape’, or as if the Catholic was filled with Santeria! Have you opened yours?
Crazy! No ours were half assembled – we finished putting them together so no Santeria idols here
Sounds fascinating though!
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