Artwork by Esther Merino

Artwork by Esther MerinoArtist: Esther Merino Medium: Textile Titles: La Florista (The Flower Girl), Andean women collect flowers daily to take them to the market or sell them on the city streets. You will see them carrying their flowers wrap around their backs. Tejedora (Weaver), This is a deeply rooted tradition in the Peruvian highlands. Women weave "telares" (tapestries) and their own clothing with intricate designs and vibrant colors. The first textiles date back to 600

"If you're ever in the neighborhood

Germany (Black and White)

Her main mediums are paper

Without expectation 2

About the Artwork: The lights of the Las Vegas strip are always dazzling

gold leaf): Aging means so many different things to each of us

Born a Chicana in the Central Valley of California

cold winter days

The image is a riff on a 1990 graffiti painting on the Berlin Wall that showed Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and East German leader Erich Honecker locked in an embrace

and acrylics

Working with watercolors is a soothing and meditative process

Medium: Cotton fiber and hand painted dye