Video (4min 0sec) of artist Anita Rodriguez discussing her art, imagery, life and how being familiar with death can make your life richer. "The subject matter sort of just emerges on it's own sometimes and there are a lot of different things happening. But one of the things that has always interested me, I've always been hung up on third-world wall paper. Ya know like really bright, kind of tacky wall paintings. And the wall paper has become transparent. And landscapes have begun to appear behind the wall paper. Doors open up into improbable rooms. That's really interesting to me. Then the wallpaper has begun to become so transparent that it's like cut glass windows. Then it has become sort of like this interconnecting web that unites the subject matter on both sides of the wallpaper. Makes me curious. Sometimes I start painting things and then years later somebody else will say, 'you know what that reminds me of?' Because we don't always understand our own work fully..."
