"If You Love Them, Set Them Free"
Item Number: 144
Time Left: CLOSED
Value: $1,100
Online Close: May 11, 2013 10:00 PM EDT
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Description
“If You Love Them, Set Then Free” By Margarita Hernández-Maxon
Bernice is a Swedish little girl, born in Brazil. “… she (Bernice) is a successful starfish hunter, and she is faced with the dilemma of letting go her beloved starfish. Is she keeping them with her because she got attached to them? Is she letting them go because she really loves them? We go through life asking ourselves the same questions about material things, people, and places. Is it attachment, or love?”
Read the complete history of Bernice and the Starfish, and her complete creation by going to Margarita’s blog:
Measurements (in): 27x 19.5 x 12.5.
Materials: The house is made out of paper-mache, Bernice made of rock clay and galvanize steel wire. Does not include shipping.
Special Instructions
Margarita Hernández-Maxon Biography
Born in 1977 in the village of Tulancingo de Bravo, Hidalgo, Mexico; Margarita studied painting for 3 years at the studio of Alejandro Rodriguez Creel, and had her first exposition in 1999 at the Casa de Cultura in Tulancingo. She has worked designing stages, logotypes and advertisement for the Federal Government of Hidalgo State, in the departments of Tourism and Economy. Besides, Margarita kept painting for specific clientele, especially portraits and historical themes of Mexico. The principal subjects of her paintings were villagers, farmers, Aztec & Maya Mythology and the Spanish Conquest.
She immigrated to the United States in April, 2006 and started exhibiting through the region. Her work has been published in The Norwich Bulletin, the New Haven newspaper The Register, and the southeastern Connecticut newspaper The Day. In 2009 Margarita had her first son and took a break for three years, then she started working in doll making, and mixed media. Her work is found in collections across USA, Canada, Mexico, Panama, and France.