Monday Draft Questions

1. In La Ofrenda: The Days of the Dead, Mesa-Bains says that making, seeing, or participation of any form with art is akin to making yourself well (37:21). This healing, Mesa-Bains says, is "in between life and death" (37:12). Do you agree or disagree with these statements? Are there examples or counterexamples you have experienced relating to these statements?
2. In “El Mundo Feminino: Chicana Artists of the Movement: A Commentary on Development and Production” by Mesa-Bains, she states that the artists she referred to "continuously negotiate the narrative in their work, an effort that binds their strikingly diverse work" (13). How do the redefining of their identities relate to the continuous negotiation of their work's narrative?
3. Mesa-Bains closes her piece saying that the work of the artists "continually recasts an open identity where tradition and innovation must live together" (14). Why is that symbiotic relationship important? How do tradition and innovation uplift each other?