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Laguna Honda Hospital - Teresa Piccirillo - Warrior Woman with BearDescription
“Art makes the world pretty.” Teresa has been doing art all her life. She studied print making and metal arts at UCSF, but long before that, as a child, she used food coloring to decorate the meals on her dinner plate. Born without a hip, Teresa has been disabled since birth. Her father died when she was quite young and she was sent to live with her grandmother. Her heart has already been broken she says and, so, it cannot be broken again. Her goal has always been to decorate everything. Make the world pretty!
She is a very prolific artist. Her drawings are very intricate, detailed and colorful. “Psychedelic!” one might think. In addition to selling her paintings, she supported herself making jewelry. Using metal scraps left over from her classes at UCSF, she made one of a kind pieces which she sold on Castro Street. Other street artists sold their work during the day. Wanting to have the street for herself, Teresa sold her jewelry at night. Teresa’s drawings always tell a story. The story she is telling these days is about women and how powerful they are. “Women can save the world,” she says. “Eventually, women will save the world!”
