The cosmos within
When artist Cristina Grisar was a teenager, she already knew what would happen to her future—finish school, get a job, earn a lot of money, get married, have a family—the way a normal life should be. But growing up in a family of artists, her life was destined to be more than that of an office worker and homemaker. “When you’re a teenager your personality starts consolidating, or that’s what you think. I saw myself as a successful businesswoman but in the creative world, inside the office. I really saw myself like that,” she says. “I was so wrong because I tried the office and I didn’t like the office at all; I am not the kind of person that works in an office.” Born and raised in Madrid, Spain, Cristina is the granddaughter of known Spanish painter Betsy Westendorp, an artist who spent most of her life in the [...]