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At 5:56pm on March 28, 2009, Griselda Tello said…: Thanks for including me in your circle of friends...amazing photos...lovely work of art!

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At 8:46am on July 17, 2008, Martha Rodriguez said…: Hi Billie. Sent you an email at your yahoo address. Next Friday will definitely work for me. Look forward to meeting you!

At 8:43pm on July 14, 2008, Martha Rodriguez said…: Sounds great! You can also reach me at:

estudiomartita@gmail.com

At 12:42pm on July 14, 2008, Martha Rodriguez said…: Maybe we've crossed paths? I'm in the city at 1890 Bryant. Let me know if you come this way. We can have coffee!
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My earliest memories of East Los Angeles, the town where I was born, was my neighbor Rafael's rooster waking me up in the morning. Senor Rafael's yard looked like Mexico. He actually had a tree stump where he killed chickens. His garden was lush with corn stalks, calla lillies,sunflowers and bird of paradise.
The King and Queen Cobras ruled my hood. The queens were Sophia Loren beautiful. Their flaming red teased hair with lips to match. Their thin eyebrows framed their beauty with fierceness. I wanted to be as beautiful as those girls when I grew up. I saw them as warriors, even though others dismissed them as those "cholas"

Much of these memores were preparing me for the next era of the civil rights movement, I was learning to find my voice. I was living in a time where old Mexico was leaving me and new assimilation was being imposed on us. Thus the Chicano movement was born.

This short glimpse has brought me to this juncture in my life, where I choose to speak through my art, my process.

Please let me share with you my interest and favorites. There is so much , but I managed to condense this list . Here goes.

I am a spiritual person, not religious. I am a student of progressive thinking and I love when mother earth shows us her power. My role model and partner in crime is my great grandmother Lola.

My favorites:
Favorite era for movies, fashion, architecture, photography, and Mexico , is the 40's.

Avant garde artist/Maya Deren

Installation artist/Yoko Ono

Foods/Vegan Mexican and Japanese

Fashion Designer/Vivienne Westwood

Architects/Luis Barragan, Antoni Gaudi

Favorite Directors/Costa Gravas, Pedro Aldomovar

actress/Anna Magiani
Photographers/ Lola and Manuel Alvarez Bravo,Hernri Cartier Bresson-The Mexico years,Tina Modotti, Sebastiao Salgado Movies/ anything magical real, like Amelie, Pans Labrinyth
Poet/Pablo Neruda, Leonard Cohen
Music/world and jazz