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SOLDADERAS

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Soldaderas is the 2011 Mexican/ Chicanx/ Boricua Solidarity Mural
by Brooklyn-born and raised, Borikén-based Rematriated artist, Yasmín Hernández.
Modesto "Tín" Flores Community Garden
Lexington Avenue between 104 & 105th streets
El Barrio/ East Harlem, NYC

INSTALLATION June 2011

Yasmin Hernandez' Soldaderas mural, on a brick wall are painted the the Mexican and Puerto Rican flags fusing a shared red stripe and the image of painter Frida Kahlo sitting in a yellow dress wearing ammunition across her chest and an exposed heart, holding the hand of the seated figure of poet Julia de Burgos, in a blue dress and head scarf, also with ammunition across her chest and an exposed heart.

Soldaderas Mural, Yasmin Hernandez

Photo by Francisco Reyes II. Mamboso.net

Full image of Yasmin Hernandez' Soldaderas mural, on a brick wall she has painted a nature scene to the left of blue sky, blue sea, plants and flowers and to the right the Mexican and Puerto Rican flags fusing a shared red stripe and the image of painter Frida Kahlo sitting in a yellow dress wearing ammunition across her chest and an exposed heart, holding the hand of the seated figure of poet Julia de Burgos, in a blue dress and head scarf, also with ammunition across her chest and an exposed heart.

Soldaderas Mural, full view, Yasmin Hernandez

Photo by Francisco Reyes II, Mamboso.net.

Yasmin Hernandez' Soldaderas mural, on a brick wall are painted the the Mexican and Puerto Rican flags fusing a shared red stripe and the image of painter Frida Kahlo sitting in a yellow dress wearing ammunition across her chest and an exposed heart, holding the hand of the seated figure of poet Julia de Burgos, in a blue dress and head scarf, also with ammunition across her chest and an exposed heart.

Soldaderas Mural, Yasmin Hernandez

Photo by Marina Ortiz

Yasmin Hernandez' Soldaderas mural, on a brick wall are painted the the Mexican and Puerto Rican flags fusing a shared red stripe and the image of painter Frida Kahlo sitting in a yellow dress wearing ammunition across her chest and an exposed heart, holding the hand of the seated figure of poet Julia de Burgos, in a blue dress and head scarf, also with ammunition across her chest and an exposed heart.

Soldaderas mural, Yasmin Hernandez

Photo by Joe Conzo

Yasmin Hernandez' Soldaderas mural, on a brick wall are painted the the Mexican and Puerto Rican flags fusing a shared red stripe and the image of painter Frida Kahlo sitting in a yellow dress wearing ammunition across her chest and an exposed heart, holding the hand of the seated figure of poet Julia de Burgos, in a blue dress and head scarf, also with ammunition across her chest and an exposed heart.

Soldaderas Mural, Yasmin Hernandez

Soldaderas Mural in Progress, Yasmin Hernandez Art

Yasmin Hernandez' Soldaderas In Progress

Photo by Claudia Plaza

Yasmin Hernandez' Soldaderas Mural in Progress.

Yasmin Hernandez' Soldaderas Mural in Progress

Photo by Claudia Plaza

Yasmin Hernandez' Soldaderas Mural in Progress

Yasmin Hernandez' Soldaderas Mural in Progress

Photo by Claudia Plaza

Yasmin Hernandez' Soldaderas Mural in Progress

Soldaderas in progress

Artist Yasmin Hernandez on a ladder painting her Soldaderas Mural with the seated images of Frida Kahlo and Julia de Burgos holding hands with a background of the Mexican and Puerto Rican flags.

Yasmin Hernandez Painting Soldaderas

Photo by Claudia Plaza