LC lived much of her life in Mexico, painting and writing. Her two sons remember a large room whose walls were covered with images of wondrous creatures, towering mountains, and peculiar vegetation. That room was later whitewashed, but some of its wonders were preserved in the little notebook that LC called?The Milk of Dreams. This book is an important – and funny – part of her idiosyncratic artistic legacy and a great opener of the imagination.

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