barbara mendes

from The Blue Lotus Magazine Special Issue 3

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Queen of Cosmos Comix

“The “Jewel” story has the Hippy Horses inventing and selling a machine that tunes in real Divine beings; then with $ From sale they take kids along to (at the time Forbidden!) Tibet, where they all attain enlightenment. After that, they can Fly and they can see the Divine Beings without any machine.”

Barbara Mendes

NB Om mani padme hum is spoken within our studio and is the universal mantra of love and compassion. Its meaning is “Hail, the Jewel in the Lotus”. ... MANI, meaning jewel, symbolizes the factors of method - the altruistic intention to become enlightenment, compassion, and love.

Barbara Mendes was born on January 30, 1948, and studied art throughout her childhood. After graduating from NYC’s High School of Music and Art in 1966, she published stories and covers in Underground Comix under the name Willy Mendes in the early 70’s. In 1980, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California at Riverside.

Ms. Mendes invented her style of “Epic Paintings” in her youth. Her large canvases are filled them with hierarchical, narrative imagery and brilliant colors; woven into intricate compositions. Her paintings have been exhibited in numerous solo and other exhibits since 1973 in NYC, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Florida.

Multiculturalism and all aspects of womanhood were favourite subjects until 1992, when the artist painted a mural in a Sephardic synagogue in Los Angeles, and was introduced to her own glorious heritage. The study, practice and celebration of Torah Judaism eventually became the driving force in both her Life and Art.

martin bradley

Martin Bradley is the author of a collection of poetry - Remembering Whiteness and Other Poems (2012) Bougainvillea Press; a charity travelogue - A Story of Colors of Cambodia, which he also designed (2012) EverDay and Educare; a collection of his writings for various magazines called Buffalo and Breadfruit (2012) Monsoon Books; an art book for the Philippine artist Toro, called Uniquely Toro (2013), which he also designed, also has written a history of pharmacy for Malaysia, The Journey and Beyond (2014). Martin wrote a book about Modern Chinese Art with Chinese artist Luo Qi, Luo Qi and Calligraphyism from the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China, and has had his book about Bangladesh artist Farida Zaman For the Love of Country published in Dhaka in December 2019.

He is the founder-editor of The Blue Lotus formerly Dusun an e-magazine dedicated to Asian art and writing, founded in 2011.

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