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Dulce Lalita!

all is full of love, you have to trust it

About Me

I love to paint, draw, write, make jewelry, and plan events. I got my creativity from my beautiful mother who is from Colombia where she learned to draw, paint, sculpt, design clothes, make jewelry and laugh and laugh. She taught me to giggle all day and dance forever. I collaborate with designers and musicians to make the world a more delicious place. I am blessed to have achieved the utmost level of optimism, and will share it with everyone I have in my life: My silly familia, my brilliant artist and intellectual brother, mis amigas de por vida, mis gatitos locos, and of course my marvelously creative and brilliant prometido. I refuse to take anything for granted and will savor experiences and people with intensity. Please enjoy Dulce Lalita's 60's inpired Party dresses, for sizes and price, contact me. Dulce Lalita Day of the Dead inspired t-shirts are also availale. Chillin Dec 06 Un beso Irene! LALITA comes from both a recurring kung-fu-style, flying-through-the-landscape dream I have and the daily, equally charmed world I live in...a world between who I was born and who I am becomimg, between what the world is and how it exists in my imagination, between complete solitude, all the people I love, and the people I meet...A mix of conventional glamor, sex, vintage clothing and metals, embroidery, 60's MOD, and a mad mass of bling (for Oakland)Lalita as a clothing label is both fabulously done yet green, ie recycled materials and fabric for the clothing and jewelry, vintage found wood for collage and paintings.Lalita supports the local Oakland and Berkeley economy.Lalita has had four lines of clothing, Graffiti, ORIXA(for the kick-ass band, ORIXA), Frida y Muerte, and Metal Mod.Lalita proudly presents lalita.etsy.com am online store for lalita items. " My blood burns so hot my heart swells with fire smoke blurrs my vision In this abyss I cook/doodle/paint/design/sculpt/snapshot/dance/play all day for even the slightest relief my tiny universe is complex and fun delicious sweet wonderful mellowhttp://www.mcah.columbia.edu/dbcourses/krauss/large/js s_050202_judd_001.jpgGet Your Own! | View Slideshow Get Your Own! | View Slideshow Get Your Own! | View Slideshow Get Your Own! | View Slideshow Get Your Own! | View Slideshow

My Interests

..La linda Reina Sofia demonstrates how two Dulce Lalita Spring Party Dresses 07 should be worn This series is a collaboration with my brilliant bro Eddie Ross 11/29/06: For Chillin Collective 06 at Mezzanine San Francisco Nude portrait 11.22.06 sold Migration painting sold 12.20.06 Oriah Mountain Dreamer, Indian Elder It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for yours dreams, for the adventure of being alive. It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals, or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it.I want to know if you can be with JOY, mine or your own; if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, or to remember the limitations of being a human.It doesn't interest me if the story you're telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. I want to know if you can be faithful and therefore be trustworthy. I want to know if you can see beauty even when it is not pretty every day, and if you can source your life from ITS presence. I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of a lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, "YES!"It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done for the children.It doesn't interest me who you are, how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me, and not shrink back.It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself, and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments..

I'd like to meet:

People who make stuff. People who want stuff to be made for them, and the fearless

Music:

Preening for Lalita Frida y Muerte fashion show at the Vault hosted by muybueno.net, Makeup by the talented miss Stefanie aka Lola la Pistola, models Marivel and Lupe, Models provided by Flygirl Productions, photos by the wonderful Hanna Matthews Get Your Own! | View Slideshow Lalita@ Chillin' Productions show @ 111 Minna 2005. Pictures by Hanna Matthews, produced by Irene Hernandez-Felks Get Your Own! | View Slideshow May 06 222 Hyde art and catwalk Sept 29 06 Models Marivel and Krinsen DJ Gourney, makeup by Stefanie aka Lola la Pistola Get Your Own! | View Slideshow Subtle, Pink Elephant, Radiohead, Deee-Lite, Towa, Everything but the Girl, Portoishead, Theivory Corporation, M.I.A., BJORK, Daft Punk, the Clash, Talking Heads, Siouxie and the Banshees, The Mall, The Killers, Arcade Fire, Metric, ORIXA, The People, Toto La Momposina y Sus Tambores, Carlos Vives, Mana, Manu Chao, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Los Amigos Invisibles, Joe Arroyo, Grupo Niche, Sublime, Bob Marley, Jimmie Hendrix, Peter Tosh, Steel Pulse, Weather Report, Fela Kuti, Daft Punk, KRS One, Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield, The Beastie Boys, Prince, the Roots, Common, Mos Def, Kanye West, JJ Fad (What?) Otis Redding, cumbia, Merengue, bachata, Ballenato, salsa, bosanova, samba, Most everything put out by Putomayo presents, experimental, punk, hip-hop, trip-hop, silly shit, esp if it make my booty shake...

Movies:

real life is the most fun of all. Dreams are fun too!

Books:

100 Years of solitude, art books with colorful pictures, the Alchemist, the Zahir, Rain of Gold, 1984, The Stranger, The Metamorphasis, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, The Da Vinci Codes with pictures, Frida, the Diary of Frida Kalo, Andy Warhol, ...

Heroes:

Frida Kahlo, Picasso, Enrique Chigoyaga, Paul Klee, Max Ernst, Joan Miro, Dali, Andy Warhol, Da Vinci

My Blog

What You See Galore! Apr 7th 9pm

What You See Galore! A spectacle of a group show dedicated to the dynamic, eclectic bay area we all live and work in. Through installation, painting, video, printmaking, sculpture, fashion, live perfo...
Posted by Dulce Lalita! on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:55:00 PST

Fernando Botero's art for justice Abu Ghraib

Yesterday I was blessed to meet the world renowned Colombain artist Fernando Botero, and saw his controvercial exhibit (banned all over the US) about the inhumanity and hypocracy by the US govern...
Posted by Dulce Lalita! on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:23:00 PST

A veces

A veces los suenos son reales son memorias sin cumplir son dulces y delicadas y te hacen sonreir a veces no hay limite entre sueno y realidad y hay que aceptar el lindo sueno que es vivir!...
Posted by Dulce Lalita! on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 01:08:00 PST

Dec 2 Chillin art collective partay

I will be selling screenprinted items (t's vintage and men's euro-taylored shirts) paintings, and jewelry at this fabulous and last chillin event, which will later be housed in a 20,000 square-f...
Posted by Dulce Lalita! on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 01:10:00 PST

truth

Truth be told Oriah Mountain Dreamer, Indian Elder It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing. It does...
Posted by Dulce Lalita! on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 01:59:00 PST

Lalita and Eddie exhibit the Collective Unconscious May 20th

May 20th will be the opening party for the art show the "Collective Unconscious"with magnificent larger than life paintings plucked out of  the dreams of Claudia Ross (aka Lalita) ...
Posted by Dulce Lalita! on Sun, 02 Apr 2006 10:02:00 PST