i personally always preferred FLOUR tortillas

and of course the virgin of guadalupe (i have her on my steering wheel cover) is one of my favorite images. what more could a grrl want than that?

He envisions beauty, not burritos

By Diane Haithman
Corn, or flour?Artist Joe Bravo, 56, uses tortillas as his canvas, and he chooses flour — mainly because L.A.'s Tortilleria San Marcos, the company that fashions the specialorder, 2-foot-diameter tortillas on which he paints, has a bigger flour press than corn press. "But I also get more texture variations when I cook them over the stove top," he says.
Bravo — whose tortillas are on view through Jan. 13 at the Mexican Cultural Institute, 125 Paseo de La Plaza, across from Union Station — started painting tortillas as a Cal State Northridge student for a practical reason: "I didn't have the money to buy canvas," he says. "I was staring at a tortilla one day and thought: Why not paint on it?"Bravo's first tortilla artwork, a hanging mobile, disintegrated because it was improperly preserved; these days, Bravo gives his tortillas several coats of acrylic varnish.................

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