Mexican-born female artist Blanka Amezkua has been using imagery from recycled "Sensacionales" in her art for the last 11 years, putting their visual vocabulary at her service and appropriating the genre to convey her messages. Like Roy Lichtenstein who has extensively borrowed his subject matter directly from comic books for his paintings, ironically mingling low and high art, Amezkua adopts the Mexican picture stories as a backbone for her mixed media works to comment on longstanding clichés about different aspects of female identity. The artist intervenes, appropriates and reworks the different imagery through the use of domestic techniques such as embroidery and crochet; and in her current mixed media pieces via the application of nail polish and enamels. In this recent series she has recreated the image by covering almost all female facial characteristics-except for the mouth- and adding diverse abstract motifs to complete the composition. The works' surface obtains thus also a marked decorative quality that is appealing to the eye, leaving what is 'lurking' under the surface to the quests of the mind.

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