La Calavera Aburrida
Saturday, August 8th, 2009
Sylvia Ji’s subjects are zombified women with lips sewn up tight and painted faces. Though technically quite talented, the use of symbolism in her artwork can be blunt to the point of banality, as is the case with La Calavera Catrina, (perhaps you noticed the black widow spider dangling from her hat? If not there’s another one crawling on her hair). At some point her artwork becomes like a blandly-executed version of one of those posters with 100 hidden references to band names, but without the laughs.
