Doña Quixote wants to commission a retablo: “with the sun in my face and the wind in my hair…”
Featured image: Retablo, Oil on tin, 2007. In Mexico and other Spanish-speaking South American countries, a retablo is a devotional offering—using iconography from Catholicism—painted on a panel to hang in a church in fulfillment of a vow or in gratitude for divine intercession. The text on the image says, “My sentimental life was in chaos. I […]
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