Fascinated, she took one to her apartment, set it among her plants on the terrace in full moonlight, and carefully nestled tubes of paint around it. “ Strolling along a Mexican street one evening, she noticed plants with beautiful white egglike fruits. By that I mean she found magic in, or made magic out of - regular stuff.
Varo (1908 -1963) gave her cosmic-sized imagination the freedom to roam both her art life and her daily life. Like many Spanish and Mexican painters of her day, Remedios Varo was a magical realist. Remedios Varo created three hundred and eighty-four paintings “ peopled by owl-artists, insect -geologists, crazed botanists and magical astronomers who overturn our arbitrary assumptions about how things ought to work,” writes Janet Kaplan in Remedios Varo: Unexpected Journeys. Why You Too, Should Be Excited About “Moon Fruit” and Writing Letters to Strangers
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