Cut from the inverse side, a mirror ceases to be a mirror and becomes a glass.
Mirrors are for looking on this side, and glass is made to look to the other side.
Mirrors are made to be etched.
A glass is made to be broken... to cross to the other side...
P.S. The image of the real or the unreal, which searches among so many mirrors, for a glass to break.
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This wonderful folktale reveals some of the down-to-earth wisdom of the indigenous peoples of Chiapas. At the same time, it provides us with a fresh perspective on the struggles of the people there. They fight to conserve their culture and vision of the world which they see as flowering with holiness - a holiness that cannot be measured in dollars or defined by politics.
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Domitila Dominguez, or Domi, has become one of the most significant of the indigenous artists in Mexico. She had always done embroidery growing up. She tells the story that one day when she was 20 years old she simply decided to paint a brown woman on the wall of her living room. Before she was done, she had covered the walls with vivid figures. Her paintings and sculptures, in which she has developed a very personal and post-modern style, are leavened with the wit and wisdom of her own Mazatecan culture. Domi was born in 1948 in San Pedro Ixcatlan, Oaxaca.
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ISBN 0-938317-45-8
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Today's Maya number more than six million, are divided in to many differnt ethnic groups and speak more than 30 distinct indigenous languages.
Natural wells are called cenotes from the Mayan word dsonoot.
The Maya describe the Yucatan as "u luumil cutz, u luumil ceh, mayab u kabah" - the land of the pheasant, the land of the deer and Mayab is its name.
The word puuc means "hilly country" in the Maya language of the Yucatec.
The first three rows of a Mayan corn field were for travelers.
True windows are rarely found in Maya architecture.
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