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Her avoidance of color manages to suggest a fitting ambiance of wonderment and mystery in a
ritualistic context. It also avoids picturesqueness
that has characterized the way folklore has been
treated in Afro-Caribbean plastic arts. She did not
just want to reveal aspects extracted from myths

Belkis Ayón.
Déjame salir
[Let Me Out].1997
Colography.

death or a dark past that reaches us, rule good and
evil from beyond or from the most worldly and
insistent intolerance that tends to govern the conduct of the living.
During the prelude to her life’s end, Belkis’s
works—many of them circular, swirling, agitated

Belkis Ayón.
Belkis Ayón.
Vernicle o tu amor me condena
Intolerancia [Intole[My Vernicle or Your Love
rance], 1998.
Condemns Me], 1998.
Colorography..
Colorography. .
or ceremonies, which served as the core of her pocompositions—reveal and intimate poetics, an aletics. She also trie