La Tortuga Curandera - Art Explained
- Jasleni Brito
- Oct 14, 2020
- 1 min read
Updated: Aug 20, 2022
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What Happened at the Patterns of Generation Art Show Opening
Artist Jasleni Brito reflects on the Patterns of Generation opening reception at Semilla Cafe + Studio in Hartford, CT — original paintings, handcrafted ceramics, oracle readings, and the conversations about healing, ancestry, and generational patterns that made Mother's Day 2026 unforgettable.
All The Women Who Made Me
A Mother's Day reflection on the patterns we inherit, the wounds we carry, and the gratitude that lives in all of it My mama and me! My mother walked herself to the hospital when she was in labor with me. Not because she had to. Because that's just who she is. She had been working at a bodega in The Bronx, felt the contractions coming, and walked. Alone. Through the pain. To the place where she would bring me into the world. And if that one image doesn't tell you everything y
The Patterns We Inherited — What We Carry, What We Heal, and What We Keep
It started with a conversation. My friend Caroline and I were sitting together the way old friends do — comparing notes, finishing each other's sentences, laughing at things that probably shouldn't be funny but absolutely are when you've lived them. Caroline is an artist, ceramicist, and writer. She's Colombian. I'm Dominican. And somewhere between swapping stories about our mothers, our cultures, and the very specific kind of love that comes wrapped in impossibly high expect
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