Imagination Stimulation

Mary Blair was an American artist who worked with Walt Disney during the 1940s and 1950s. She created bold, colorful concept art that inspired the visual style of films like Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, and Peter Pan. Her work was full of bright, unexpected color combinations that made Disney’s worlds feel enchanting and unique.

Mary Blair’s work was ahead of its time. She was one of the few female artists in animation during her era, and her creativity broke boundaries. Even today, her unique style continues to inspire illustrators, designers, and artists everywhere.

Mary Blair's 'Alice in Wonderland' illustrations:

According to an essay by the author and art critic David Levi Strauss, Beuys sought to confront in American society “the schism between native intelligence and European mechanistic, materialistic, and positivistic values.”

And in some Native American lores and beliefs, the powerful coyote represents both the possibility of transformation and the archetypal trickster. In certain creation myths, the coyote takes on a Promethean role, teaching humans how to survive. As Levi Strauss also noted, the author of a 1983 book on coyotes compared their resilience to the resistance of the Vietnamese soldier—an equivalence that Beuys would have appreciated.

Despite the coyote being represented as an aggressive predator (and, amazingly, as an intruder) by European settlers and their descendents, who sought to eliminate it, to Beuys, it was America’s spirit animal.

“You could say that a reckoning has to be made with the coyote, and only then can this trauma be lifted,” he said of his performance. For those three days, he attempted to make eye contact with the coyote while regularly performing symbolic gestures, such as tossing his leather gloves to it or gesticulating wildly at it with his hands and walking stick. Occasionally, he would assume the guise of a shepherd, cloaked in his felt with a hooked walking stick protruding from it.

Documentation of the action suggests that the coyote’s behavior was alternately curious and rather nonplussed, oscillating at various times between hostile and docile. But Beuys was unperturbed. Whether the coyote stripped his felt from him with its powerful jaws or allowed him a brief embrace, the artist persisted in his attempts to connect with the creature right up until the final hours of the performance—when he was bundled up again and delivered back to the airport to return to Europe.

Rita Payés, Toni Vaquer - Se Transformará

Cuando llegue a lo más hondo De la tierra gritaré No se quemarán mis manos Ni mi cuerpo en cenizas se transformará

Cuando llegue a lo más alto De los cielos gritaré No me quedaré sin aire Y mis brazos en alas de cristal se transformarán

¿Quién fuera querer Capaz de volver el miedo en flor, frío en calor?

Cuando el río ya no suene Y la esperanza ya no esté Lloverán más de mil años Y las almas en gotitas de plata se transformarán

Cuando un ángel de la guarda Te acaricia una vez Esa vez vale por toda esa pena Que el tiempo en nube blanca la transformará

¿Quién fuera querer Capaz de volver el miedo en flor, frío en calor?

Cuando llegue a lo más hondo De la tierra gritaré No se quemarán mis manos Ni mi cuerpo en cenizas se transformará

Cuando llegue a lo más alto De los cielos gritaré No me quedaré sin aire Y mis brazos en alas de cristal se transformarán

Oh-oh-oh-oh En nube blanca Nube blanca Uh

¿Quién fuera querer Capaz de volver el miedo en flor, frío en calor? Y ese es el amor

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