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Call Her 'Abuelita Moisés'

Herrera
Check out the slide show. I love her work. By the way: why couldn't my last name be Zugazagoitia? I would love to watch people trip over that one.

(Image © Todd Heisler for the New York Times)

Comments:

To each his own, I suppose. Her work looks like kid art from a second grader to me. Maybe a fifth grader. Hey, there's a new series: "Are You a Better Artist Than a Fifth Grader?"
Roberto, perdóneme por favor, but I was tempted to ask what kind of idiot pays $40,000 for something I recall doing with stock paper and glue while in preschool. However, I was reminded of this story: A wealthy socialite urgently wanted a hat. A milliner (hat-maker) came to her apartment and within a few minutes had created a stunning hat from a single strand of colored ribbon. The socialite was delighted and asked the milliner what the charges were, and he replied "Nine hundred dollars." The socialite replied tartly "That's a lot of money for just a piece of ribbon!" The milliner unpinned and unwound the ribbon and handed it to her, saying "Madame, you were purchasing my expertise; the ribbon is free." // I really prefer Albrecht Dürer, or (more ethnically congruent with this story, and even an interesting name coincidence) Francisco Herrera the Younger, but then I suppose all those classes in geometry spoiled me because in looking at Ms. Herrera's work all I see is isoscelese, scalene, right triangle,... Maybe art and complex mathematics will meet again someday, as they did with Mandelbrot's fractal geometry.