Winston Chmielinski

Every year for All Saints Day, people from my family's town in Santiago Sacatepequez, Guatemala make kites to send messages to the dead.

Semana Santa parade in Antigua Guatemala, 2012 by Gemma Givens.

I put some beads to a doodle!

Honeycomb at Slow Food Nation, San Francisco, 2008 by Gemma Givens.

“Somewhere Between” is a documentary by Linda Goldstein Knowlton about the story of four teenage girls who were adopted from different parts of China. According to the documentary’s trailer, about 80,000 girls have been adopted from China since 1999, due to factors such as the one-child policy and a cultural preference to having male children. The four girls, Haley, Jenna, Ann, and Fang, go through a journey of self-identity of belonging, race, and gender through different means. Some go back to China they were born in to delve in deeper to their Chinese culture; they all meet and bond with other adoptees. Through this documentary, they try to answer the universal question of “Who am I?”

For more information on this documentary, read their website.

Comensal I by Erwin Guillermo

Oil on canvas

16 in X 20 in 

La Antigua Galeria de Arte 

http://www.laantiguagaleria.com/ErwinGuillermo.html

Kaqchikel (Mayan) painter Paula Nicho Cumez is from San Juan Comalapa, the Kaqchikel art capital, the Santa Fe (NM) of Guatemala. This piece is called Mi Segunda Piel.

Strange Frenzy

There is a strange frenzy in my head,

of birds flying,

each particle circulating on its own.

Is the one I love everywhere? 

- RUMI

By Hayal Tamircisi