Tania Esmeralda Padilla BioTania Esmeralda Padilla is a San Francisco native focusing primarily in video and performance that integrate puppetry, artwork and animation. She received her BFA in Experimental Animation from CalArts. Inspired by healers and the intricacies of human exchange, her artwork creates whimsical connections between the polarities of life. Reality and fantasy, the living and dead, and the ordinary and spectacular live side by side in her artwork. She integrates imagery of the carnivalesque, mysticism and the global condition to provoke a compassionate and reflective experience for the viewer. Through puppetry and storytelling she creates a surreal space where the appreciation of love, health, family and death can be explored within a world of visual poetry.
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