Remembering Richard Enzer 2

Remem­ber­ing Richard Enz­er – Part 2

by Susan­na Starr

Richard Enzer & Miriam on our porch

Although pret­ty much wild and crazy, Richard was also very charm­ing and con­vinc­ing. There was very lit­tle that could be fur­ther from our minds than enter­ing into a part­ner­ship with him. But Richard was firm­ly con­vinced that he need­ed to devel­op the Line of the Spir­it beyond where it was at the time and that we would be the per­fect part­ners because of our his­to­ry in the vil­lage and rela­tion­ship with the weavers. So, he sweet talked us into it!

After the agree­ment was signed and we were offi­cial­ly part­ners, we left for Mex­i­co and showed up, as agreed, at Richard’s house in the city of Oax­a­ca. A par­ty was going on. We were soon to learn that he always was sur­round­ed by an entourage, most­ly of artists, musi­cians and var­i­ous oth­er assort­ed peo­ple, some Mex­i­can nation­als, some friends from the States and some new friends he would make on a steady basis. Richard was enthu­si­as­tic about hav­ing us stay with him, but we quick­ly real­ized that we would need a place of our own. We would join him in the rounds in the vil­lage each day, but main­tained a life that was a lit­tle less involved with oth­er people.

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The team also includ­ed Miri­am, a love­ly young woman who quick­ly became a friend. She was the liai­son per­son who han­dled all the mon­ey as well as dis­trib­ut­ing what was need­ed to the weavers work­ing on the project. And then there was Alta Gra­cia, the dye-mak­er. Richard had spent quite a lot of time work­ing with her with his sleeves rolled up, at the dye-pots. She was an impor­tant part of the team since the vibrant col­ors that she hand-mixed over an open fire were a cor­ner­stone of the Line of the Spir­it weav­ing collection.

Those were excit­ing and intense days, weeks and months we spent togeth­er with Richard and all the var­i­ous peo­ple in our cir­cle. Every day we would pick up Miri­am and go to Sergio’s house where his wife, Thomasa would be stir­ring a pot of atole or cof­fee and feed­ing the babies. Then we’d make the rounds. That meant vis­it­ing each and every weaver work­ing on the Line of the Spir­it project, spend­ing time with them as they worked on the loom, going over the designs and the col­ors to be used. It was an amaz­ing and inspir­ing time, and we would often return to Oax­a­ca after dark, exhaust­ed but elat­ed. Richard exud­ed ener­gy and it was hard for him to stop and call it a day when he was in the rhythm of work­ing with the weavers. We would also spend part of the day with Alta, dis­cussing the dyes and the nuances of the col­ors. She was a con­sum­mate artist at the dye pots.

Richard Enzer with Line of the Spirit, Corazo de Maguey tapestry

Every­one loved Richard, his enthu­si­asm, his will­ing­ness to work with each of them, impart­ing his vision to them and appre­ci­at­ing his plea­sure with what they were pro­duc­ing. When pieces would come off the loom, they would be car­ried back to Richard’s house where we would exam­ine each weav­ing, inspect­ing and admir­ing them. There was always an inti­mate con­nec­tion between us, the team of Ser­gio, Miri­am and Alta and, of course, the indi­vid­ual weavers and their fam­i­lies, includ­ing the chil­dren who seemed to delight in our vis­its. Now, twen­ty years lat­er, many of the orig­i­nal weavers are still work­ing on the Line of the Spir­it and some of those chil­dren have joined the project, hav­ing become excel­lent weavers in their own right.

Remembering Richard Enzer

Remem­ber­ing Richard Enz­er — Part 1

by Susan­na Starr

Richard Enzer in Zapotec Weaving Village
Richard Enz­er in Zapotec Weav­ing Village

Every­one has moments in their lives that seem incon­se­quen­tial at the time but, in ret­ro­spect, we can rec­og­nize the impact of that chance meet­ing or conversation.

It was an out­door par­ty held at Ellie’s house, just down the road from where I lived in the small val­ley of Valdez, just out­side of Taos, New Mex­i­co, that Richard Enz­er rode into my life. I had been stum­bling around in the woods, try­ing to get back to where most of the peo­ple were gath­ered in the open area around the house, unable to find my way through the dense veg­e­ta­tion. I was begin­ning to feel panicky.

At the moment I start­ed to emerge into the warm sun­light, Richard got down from the horse he had been rid­ing and, see­ing my face, strode over and opened his arms to hold me. There were no words exchanged, just the com­fort and secu­ri­ty offered in that reas­sur­ing embrace, one per­son to anoth­er. For me, it was a defin­ing moment and despite the var­i­ous expe­ri­ences we shared in the ensu­ing years, that ges­ture of kind­ness and recog­ni­tion remained.

We each wan­dered off in dif­fer­ent direc­tions then at the par­ty and dur­ing the fol­low­ing years. Liv­ing in a small town, I heard about him from time to time but it wasn’t until a num­ber of years lat­er that he reap­peared in my life.
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My part­ner and I had spent more than a dozen years build­ing a busi­ness that involved our active par­tic­i­pa­tion in a small Zapotec Indi­an weav­ing vil­lage locat­ed in the moun­tains just out­side of Oax­a­ca, Mex­i­co. As the years passed, our busi­ness grew as did that of the peo­ple we worked with. We worked sev­en days a week and spent sev­er­al months in Mex­i­co every win­ter work­ing with the weavers and build­ing what devel­oped into a small eco resort and retreat cen­ter in anoth­er part of the coun­try, the Yucatan Penin­su­la of Mexico.

Dur­ing the years of the 1980’s, we were buy­ing large quan­ti­ties of beau­ti­ful hand-loomed rugs and wall hang­ings, care­ful­ly select­ing each piece. We were receiv­ing ship­ments reg­u­lar­ly and had our own “bode­ga” or stor­age area. Here our extra inven­to­ry was care­ful­ly stacked and laid out. Ship­ments that were received at the shop were tak­en there to be unpacked, exam­ined and admired again before putting them in their prop­er places.

It was on one of these occa­sions that we were unpack­ing a ship­ment, that we real­ized the rugs were not famil­iar to us. They were stun­ning­ly beau­ti­ful in deep rich tones of com­plex designs. It didn’t take us long to real­ize that they were Richard’s rugs that had been sent to us by mistake.

Although we hadn’t been in touch with him, we knew that Richard had been work­ing in the same weav­ing vil­lage that we were, after a long absence from Taos, and design­ing his own rugs there. With the help of not­ed weaver and col­orist, Rachel Brown of Taos, New Mex­i­co, he devel­oped a palette of deep, rich col­ors more rem­i­nis­cent of fine ori­en­tal rugs than the col­ors and designs being used in the small Zapotec Indi­an village.

His expe­ri­ence work­ing with the New York rug gallery, the Gor­dian Knot, expand­ed his design hori­zons with ori­en­tal design ele­ments includ­ed in his own col­lec­tion of South­west­ern designs, which he called the Line of the Spir­it. We hadn’t ever seen any of his col­lec­tion but it was clear as we unfold­ed the pieces that day in our bode­ga, that Richard had gone far beyond any­thing being pro­duced in the vil­lage and, with good rea­son, we were very impressed.

Track­ing him down wasn’t dif­fi­cult and we sent the ship­ment on to him. Not long after, he sug­gest­ed that we look once again at some of his pieces with the idea of our pur­chas­ing them. We did and found it a per­fect addi­tion to our own fine col­lec­tion at what was then known as La Uni­ca Cosa (the only thing), now Starr Inte­ri­ors. We loved the rugs and our cus­tomers respond­ed to our enthu­si­asm and were soon buy­ing from Richard on a reg­u­lar basis.

It wasn’t very long after­ward that Richard showed up at the shop one day with his art direc­tor from the vil­lage to lay out a propo­si­tion. What came of that dis­cus­sion was the begin­ning of my long involve­ment with the Line of the Spir­it, which con­tin­ues to this day.

Day of the Dead — Dias de los Muertos — Oaxaca, Mexico

Altar, Cemetery Chapel - Day of the Dead - Oaxaca State, Mexico
Susan­na Starr plac­ing pho­to on Altar, Ceme­tery Chapel — Day of the Dead — Oax­a­ca State, Mex­i­co ©John Lamkin 

The Day of the Dead cel­e­bra­tion is marked by var­i­ous rit­u­als, includ­ing the Amer­i­can Hal­loween. But in Oax­a­ca this hol­i­day, known as Los Dias de los Muer­tos, is some­thing that goes far beyond trick or treat­ing and chil­dren in cos­tumes. It is not marked by carved pump­kins and chil­dren gar­ner­ing as much can­dy as can fill their bags.

Rather, it is a holy hol­i­day, one that marks the cel­e­bra­tion of those who have passed away, death being part of life. Fur­ther, it is an hon­or­ing of those who once were part of their lives, a day of remem­brance. It is a day infused with a feel­ing of spir­it. Yes, there are parades, such as the large on in Mit­la with all kinds of flam­boy­ant cos­tumes, and major dec­o­ra­tions in the large ceme­ter­ies, but the most impor­tant acknowl­edg­ment of this holy hol­i­day takes place at the indi­vid­ual altars in each home.

For the Zapotec peo­ple, the altar is the focal point in their home. All dur­ing the year, it is adorned with pho­tos, some of Mary and Jesus, with can­dles, with vas­es of flow­ers and with oth­er objects that have spe­cial mean­ing. But on these two days, Novem­ber 1st and 2nd, the altars become more spe­cif­ic and elab­o­rate. Now, par­tic­u­lar flow­ers, includ­ing the deep red fox­glove and the bright orange and yel­low marigolds, sym­bol­ize this hol­i­day. More pho­tos are added of their loved ones who have passed on. There are plates of the spe­cial egg based bread that are in abun­dance in every mar­ket and more can­dles. Plates of nuts and fruit and spe­cial­ly pre­pared can­dies are there too, as well as a bot­tle of mescal, the tra­di­tion­al drink used to com­mem­o­rate all spe­cial events

In the evening, most of the vil­lage walks to the ceme­tery at the church, as they have been doing for cen­turies. They car­ry flow­ers and can­dles, food and drink, and kneel at the graves of their loved ones, as well as vis­it­ing the graves of their depart­ed friends. It is a shar­ing with the difunc­tos, as they are known in Span­ish, this day when they feel those spir­its have returned to be with them once again. The first day of Los Dias de los Muer­tos is ded­i­cat­ed to the mem­o­ries of the chil­dren. It is the day when they return to their fam­i­lies one more time. The sec­ond day is for all the oth­ers, which ends with the pil­grim­age to the cemetery.

Alta Gracia (Line of the Spirit dyemaker) at her Altar ©John Lamkin
Alta Gra­cia (Line of the Spir­it™ dye­mak­er) at her Altar ©John Lamkin

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In my almost 40 years of liv­ing and work­ing with the weavers and oth­er  Zapotec peo­ple of a small vil­lage out­side of Oax­a­ca, I have always been remind­ed of what­ev­er they do, whether it is cel­e­brat­ing a spe­cial hol­i­day or sim­ply being involved in an exchange of busi­ness, every­thing is infused with the spir­it. Every home, rich or poor, has as the focal point of their home, a care­ful­ly tend­ed altar. The weav­ings that may be piled up on the bench­es along the wall are also infused with this same sense of spir­it. There is no sep­a­ra­tion. It is some­thing that I think is worth remem­ber­ing when we are involved in our own busi­ness trans­ac­tions, that they are not apart from, but part of our every­day lives…..

Susan­na Starr  Octo­ber, 2010 

Cemetery - Day of the Dead ©John Lamkin
Ceme­tery — Day of the Dead ©John Lamkin
Children's Altar - Day of the Dead  ©John Lamkin
Chil­dren’s Altar — Day of the Dead ©John Lamkin
Day of the Dead Celebration - Oaxaca, Mexico - ©John Lamkin
Day of the Dead Cel­e­bra­tion — Oax­a­ca, Mex­i­co — ©John Lamkin


Events at Starr Interiors — Book Signing & Weaving Demonstration

Father Bill & Mirabai Starr signing "Mother of God; Similar to Fire" at Starr Interiors, Taos, New Mexico
Father Bill & Mirabai Starr sign­ing “Moth­er of God; Sim­i­lar to Fire” at Starr Interiors

Peo­ple were lined up from one end to the oth­er of the Starr Gallery room at Starr Inte­ri­ors, Taos on Fri­day night (Sept. 24th) as Mirabai Starr and Father William McNi­chols (Father Bill) signed their new­ly released book Moth­er of God; Sim­i­lar to Fire*.

This exquis­ite book, a col­lab­o­ra­tion between both author and artist, presents a selec­tion of the icons of Father Bill’s with Mirabai’s accom­pa­ny­ing reflec­tions. The book is ded­i­cat­ed to the Fem­i­nine rep­re­sent­ed by Mary, Moth­er of God since she tran­scends any reli­gious bound­aries, but rep­re­sents the Moth­er as she appears to all peo­ple in all cultures.

It was a beau­ti­ful and joy­ous occa­sion at Starr Inte­ri­ors with both old friends and new, mem­bers of the com­mu­ni­ty and vis­i­tors, milling around the court­yard, sam­pling the deli­cious, beau­ti­ful­ly-pre­sent­ed food pre­pared by the School of Culi­nary Arts of the Uni­ver­si­ty of New Mex­i­co at Taos.

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Florentino at loom in Starr Interior's courtyard
Flo­renti­no at loom in Starr Inte­ri­or’s courtyard

The next week­end event (Octo­ber 2nd and 3rd) was just as suc­cess­ful – the annu­al vis­it by mas­ter weaver Flo­renti­no Gutier­rez and his asso­ciate Hugo Gon­za­les. While they did weav­ing demon­stra­tions on the tra­di­tion­al Zapotec loom in Starr Inte­ri­or’s court­yard, Florentino’s wife, Eloisa, pre­pared and served deli­cious Oax­a­can hot choco­late. This event coin­cid­ed with the annu­al Taos Wool Festival.

*Moth­er of God; Sim­i­lar to Fire is avail­able from Starr Inte­ri­ors of through Mirabai’s web­site.

Book Signing for “Mother of God, Similar to Fire” at Starr Interiors — Taos, New Mexico

Mother of God:
Moth­er of God, Sim­i­lar to Fire by Fr. William Hart McNi­chols & Mirabai Starr

On Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 24th 2010 from 5:30–7:30 PM, there will be a book sign­ing of Moth­er of God, Sim­i­lar to Fire. This is a stun­ning col­lab­o­ra­tion of artis­tic expres­sion of Icons by Father William Hart McNi­chols with Reflec­tions by Mirabai Starr. The book sign­ing and cel­e­bra­tion will be held at Starr Inte­ri­ors* at 117–119 Paseo del Pueblo Norte (2 doors south of the Taos Inn). Con­tin­ue read­ing

A Taste of Oaxaca in Taos, New Mexico: Master Zapotec Weaver, Florentino Gutierrez Gives Weaving Demonstration

Florentino Gutierrez Master Zapotec Indian Weaver
Flo­renti­no Gutier­rez Mas­ter Zapotec Indi­an Weaver ©John Lamkin

Flo­renti­no Gutier­rez, not­ed weaver of Zapotec hand­made rugs, will be giv­ing a weav­ing demon­stra­tion show­ing the tra­di­tion­al way of the cen­turies old Zapotec Indi­an weav­ing tech­nique Sat­ur­day and Sun­day, Octo­ber 2nd and 3rd, 2010. Starr Inte­ri­ors will be host­ing this spe­cial event in their court­yard at 117–119 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, Taos, New Mex­i­co two doors south of the his­toric Taos Inn.
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Our New Online Store

Nomadic - Line of the Spirit collection
Nomadic — Starr Inte­ri­ors’ own design­er col­lec­tion, Line of the Spirit™

We’re about to rein­vent our­selves (again!), with a new store­front online, fea­tur­ing our lat­est weav­ings and home décor, includ­ing Starr Inte­ri­ors’ own design­er col­lec­tion, Line of the Spir­it™, ready to grace your floors and walls. be sure to check back often (or just Sub­scribe!) to receive notices of our lat­est acqui­si­tions and spe­cial sales and events.
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A Visit to Teotitlan

A Visit to Teotitlan

Two Women at Teotitlan Market - Oaxaca Mexico
Two Women in Teoti­t­lan Mar­ket, Oax­a­ca Mex­i­co ©John Lamkin

A Vis­it to Teoti­t­lan by John Lamkin

Near­ly 40 years ago, I bumped along the pot-holed high­way south out of Oax­a­ca City, Mex­i­co to get to the Zapotec Indi­an weav­ing vil­lage of Teoti­tlán del Valle, an enclave of dirt streets and mea­ger houses–with earth floors, out­door kitchens and out­hous­es. The only school had but three grades, and there was very lit­tle elec­tric­i­ty. Con­tin­ue read­ing