Bertha Otoya, Peruvian artist and USA immigrant, is one of the leading figures of San Francisco’s Creativity Explored Studio. She sews, draws and etches, bringing life and meaning to an astounding bestiary buried deep in our emotions and traditions. Below her images, she freely copies old texts about demonomania, witches, angels and devils, the sky, abysses, cheap or precious metals, Paracelsus and alchemy. Otoya’s fabulous monsters, snakes and fish float around under the skin at a level of conscience, bringing together our fears and, in a great burst of lucidity, exorcising our worries. The expressive power of fragile worlds: through Otoya, let’s learn to live alongside the monsters and transform our fears into living hope.