Journalist Leslie Katz, a Forbes contributor since October 2023, covers science and consumer technology, often focusing on how they overlap with art and creativity.
Growing up in Nicaragua in the 1960s, San Francisco Bay Area resident Blanca Lorena Perez detonated what she called “ash bombs” in her aunt’s garden. Beneath a tall mango tree, she and her cousins would drop a heavy rock onto one end of their wooden seesaw, causing a can of ashes balanced on the opposite end to jump, spewing the powdery residue they culled from fallen leaves burned to use as fertilizer.
Like a number of students in a San Francisco art class for older women who immigrated to the Bay Area from Latin America, Perez doesn’t have many photos of her early life — she had to limit the possessions she brought when she fled Nicaragua with her four young children in 1979 aboard a Red Cross plane. “We left because of one of the worst wars that can exist, a civil war which pits you against your own people, against friends, cousins, and in some cases, your own brothers,” Perez said.
On closer inspection, AI’s uneven imprint becomes apparent in the extra arm with a surfeit of fingers that juts from the older woman’s side. Despite the, there’s no mistaking Ana Miranda’s childhood memory. Every November around “Dia de los Difuntos,” the Salvadoran name for Day of the Dead, Miranda’s mother sent her to local cemeteries to sell, a drink made of malted barley, sugar and lemon, to families gathered to clean graves, lay flowers and celebrate their dearly departed.
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