After breakfast we went to the artist fair. We met the artist (Antonio Cornelio Rendon)
who had made the large straw pieces (estrellas) in our house. Bo had a nice chat with him and in
appreciation he spent 3 minutes creating a small pretty straw hummingbird
holding a star in its beak for us. We
went to a lecture concerning the indigenous artists in Chiapas making a ceremonial gown (huipil)
for the virgin Mary for the annual procession. The lecturer described the
entire process of preparing the wool, dying it and weaving and then the
embroidery, which is quite complex. For
the 2019 huipil in this village
of Magdalenas, it took a
year to make the piece for 2 embroiderers. We walked around and took pictures
with some other artists we liked, including weavers from the mountains of
Veracruz and a weaver from Chiapas who had the most magnificent silk (and also
cotton) rebozo (traditional Mexican shawl), which took a year of weaving. We
had a break for lunch in a restaurant on Malecon (not great), then walked the
extremely crowded Malecon to the center of town for ice cream, and back to the
fair for one last look. At 4 pm we took
a taxi to the airport for our flight back to LAX. The check-in and security was
a breeze.
However, LAX is terrible.
It took us 3 minutes to clear immigration and customs. But outside
Bradley terminal was a nightmare. It took our driver 30 minutes to get
from terminal 2 to us.
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