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Saturday, August 31, 2013

Makeda: The painter and her vivid flowers

Makeda, the Queen of Sheba, also known as Nakuti, Nicaule or Balqis means beauty in Amharic (One of Ethiopia's official languages).
Beauty manifests through the paintings of Christina Clodomir, artistically known as Makeda. With acrylic as her main paint, Makeda prefers lively flowers as her subjects.
Flowers speak to her. She summarizes their monologues in the titles of the paintings, such as "Majestic Bird", "Congo Trio" and "Find Me Taste Me".
According to her, flowers are a representation of the world.
"Inside flowers, there is a similarity with everything that is, whether [they are] human beings or nature," she explains. "It is a divine prototype."
Makeda enjoys burying herself in her paintings.
"I take pleasure in focusing," she says. "In art, hours don't matter anymore."

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Today, Saturday, August 31, Makeda is hosting an exhibition for her paintings at the Art Center Wynwood in Miami, Florida from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. A reception will be held at 7:00 p.m. until the end of the exhibit.

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