Jorge Sánchez Hernández [1926 – 2016] was a Mexican Catholic painter and continuator of the 17th century style of Spanish Baroque painters. He studied at the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City. His work is in both public and private collections. His most famous painting is an imagined portrait of Sor Juana Inés de […]
Four-times-four centuries out of view,
First born, then buried, then born anew,
Seth was my father, Eugnostos my groom,
Gongessos my midwife, Charaxio my tomb.
Through seventy summers the dust-cloud of gold
Released at my re-birth has brightly rolled
Around the globe – the Nile’s gift of reeds
Kindled by knowledge and sowing light’s seeds.
Though delivered third-hand to your perception,
I am, nonetheless, The Immaculate Conception.
Phillip Medhurst 