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Now you've seen her work and admired it. Your appreciation is right up there with the experts. You know she's carving ancient olive wood from trees planted by Spanish at the time of the Incas. You know she inlays her carving with silver and horn and other types wood. How do you describe her work? Say, you're writing a pamphlet for one her exhibitions.
Here's how Bill Lowe describes her work for his gallery.
...epic in its eloquence, breathing new life into archetypal symbols and dreams. Her hauntingly beautiful figures are at once mystical and primal, conveying an emotional experience unbounded by time.Ew, good one.
I don't think I can top that. I'd say, "Her work all looks African except with elegant feminine lines."
Margarita Checa says of herself.
"I went to live in Costa Rica in 1992. There I had the strongest sensation that regardless of where I might find myself I carried with me my entire country - its culture, its history, like tattoos all over my body. It was at that moment I started to inlay woods in the different colors and hues offered to me in Costa Rica."An art critic, Carol Damian says,
Taking imagery from dreams, Checa's work is a manifestation of the collective unconscious, startling in its clarity. "The essence of human is captured in Margarita Checa's melancholy and sensuously provocative sculptures. Haunted by psychological and emotional undertones that are communicated through the decidedly organic nature of wood or rich surfaces captured in bronze, her figures have a unique and expressive power.
