Imaginal Journal
Imagination is Medicine
De La Cruz
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. 17th Century Poet. Defender of woman’s right to education. Her hermetic devotion to her mind, body and soul is an inspiration.
“I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me!”
Poniatowska
Elena Poniatowska. Journalist, Novelist. A voice for the voiceless.
“Todos estamos tan llenos de retratos interiores, tan llenos de paisajes no vividos (We are all so filled with interior images, so filled with journeys not taken)”
Carrington
“The Inn of the Dawn Horse (Self-Portrait),” oil on canvas, 1939
Leonora Carrington. Painter. Surrealist.
“I didn’t have time to be anyone’s muse… I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist”
Kahlo
“The Two Fridas,” 1939, Oil on canvas
Frida Kahlo. Painter. Surrealitst.
“Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.”
Paz
Octavio Paz. Writer.
With poetic thoughts on the modernist state– the individual’s intersection with philosophy, religion, art, and politics– I’m inspired by his explorations on the Mexican identity. Also a Mexican ambassador in India.
“Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.”
Gems of Soul in Latin Arts
I have fallen in a rabbit hole, feeling myself fall in love all over again with the artistic and literary figures that moved me so deeply when I was studying Spanish and English Literature.
Unawakened
“The unawakened mind tends to make war against the way things are”