July
is always
for remembering
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón
woman, comrade, artist, disability activist, Mexican, icon,
born in 1907, on the sixth of July.
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July
is always
for remembering
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón
comrade, artist, woman,
disability activist, Mexican, icon,
born in 1907,
on the sixth of July.
died on July 13, 1954
mid-late april, optimistic
early may, expectant
mid may, consternation
meticulously,
i sanitize the vessels,
bases and perches
soaking and fastidiously brushing the red and yellow flower parts to clean them of all gunk and lodged debris
i employ two, simple, pinched-waist, glass hummingbird feeders //
there are more beautiful, ornamental, more expensive or cheaper feeders available,
but this design functions best/ i am a seven year veteran of hummingbird joy.
age-old recipe for hummingbird feeder nectar:
1 part pure cane sugar.
PURE. CANE. SUGAR.
to
4 parts water.
the end.
not beet sugar, not organic sugar,
nor turbinado, nor raw, never brown sugar
this so very important – other sugars are too susceptible to mold, to bacteria, or contain too much iron in the form of molasses.
pure, white, refined and granulated cane sugar, chemically and nutritionally, most closely approximates natural flower nectar
never ever, use store-bought nectar mix* or pre-mix*;
*and when in a store that sells that toxic shit, bury the packets or hide the bottles behind other merchandise on the shelf — just as when i spot Clinton, Kissinger, Amy Schumer, Dubya, or Sheryl Sandberg non-fiction fictions on the shelf at bookstores or big box stores — i flip that tripe backwards and upside down
On July 12, 2021, I experienced the Frida Kahlo TIMELESS exhibit at the Cleve Carney Museum at the College of DuPage in Wheaton, Illinois — an exhibition which was originally scheduled for July 2020 and titled “Frida 2020”, but postponed because of the global COVID-19 Pandemic. My original ticket was specifically chosen for the anniversary of her death — July 13th, 2020 [1954] and for the exhibition events CCMA had planned for that day.
I spent more than three hours in the exhibit — entering the gallery anew three times during my visit in order to re-experience and fully drink in her work for the first-time ever — her paintings, her drawings, her fotos, her possessions — from the collection entrusted to Dolores Olmedo; I walked the galleries in reverse once to shift my experience and perspective.
The accompanying exhibit of the historical timeline and personal narrative of Kahlo’s life before and with, without, and reunited with her beloved/beloathed (depending) — husband, artist Diego Rivera, and the archive — including reproductions of her fotos, bed, treasured objects and clothing was comprehensive, wondrous and satisfying.
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