Santa Muerte: My Search for The Bony Lady

While in Mexico recently for a book tour, I visited a market in Guadalajara where I encountered a skeletal figure, robed, with long black hair holding a scythe and globe standing in a shop window. A Grim Reapstress of sorts, standing shoulder to shoulder with statues of Jesus, St. Jude and The Virgin of Guadalupe. I’d been doing research into the lives of the saints and martyrs, but here was one I’d never come across. Many revered as saints and martyrs were regarded as misfits and people that actively sought death, however, none actually embodied death as far as I’d ever heard.

She goes, I was told, by many names -- Lady Of Shadows. Holy Girl. Lady of the Night. The Skinny Lady. Santa Sebastiana, the female equivalent of St. Sebastian, known also for symbolizing a holy death. Frowned upon by the Church and the upper classes, worshiped secretly for centuries by the working classes, Santa Muerte had become the Patron saint of ‘outcasts’ and the downtrodden, invoked privately by many living alternative lifestyles: gay, transgender, bi-sexual, and even criminal ones - drug traffickers, pickpockets and prostitutes among others - on the fringe of mainstream society, who seek her favor and protection.

In current times, her devotional cult had come up from the underground, mainly as part of the Day of the Dead celebrations held widely in Mexico. If the Day Of Dead had a Queen, she would be it. Altars are erected in her honor, festooned with cigarettes, flowers, traditional sugar skulls, coins and candles. She even has her own rosary.

The more research I did, the more questions I asked, the more apprehensive I found people were about answering my questions or even discussing the topic. Which only made me more curious. Saint Death seemed to be shrouded in mystery, suspicion and warnings. One person who was willing to talk told me a story of a bus driver “sacrificing” his passengers to Saint Death by making them exit the vehicle and running them over. Another person warned me NEVER look a spiritual leader’s wife in the eyes.

At my request, my publishing team in Mexico arranged for me to visit to a market in Guadalajara and an altar in Mexico City. I was cautioned that these places could be dangerous and were far outside the usual tourist stops. I was told not to take my purse, wear jewelry or go at night.

Our first stop was the Mercado de San Juan, or as the locals call it, Taiwan de Dios, market in Guadalajara, where clumps of herbs hung low from the ceiling, and bare light bulbs dangled over statues of Santa Muerte effigies. Special oils, incense, and candles promising romance, money, health, erections, and everything in between were offered for sale.

Next, we were taken to the town of Tepito, outside of Mexico City, the center or Santa Muerte worship in Mexico, by Martin George, a self-professed spiritual leader of Santa Muerte, who explained to us that Santa Muerte is a mixture of Aztec beliefs (including men symbolizing life and women symbolizing death) and traditional Catholicism that the Spanish brought over during the Conquest. He led us to a life-size statue of Santa Muerte built by a local hair dresser, erected on an altar behind glass and steel bars and explained that she stood at an equal distance between the ancient Aztec Cathedral and the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, pretty much encapsulating the mixture of ancient indigenous and European culture that is Santa Muerte. He went on to explain that followers also celebrate traditional Catholic saint days, but they celebrate the day of their death, and not the day they were born. For them, Santa Muerte is “The Way,” which is what the triangle hand sign (bottom image) means, in life and in death and she is the one that comes to carry you home to heaven making her, in some ways, the most important saint of all.

The second and final altar was an unplanned surprise. We found it driving through Colonia Doctores. Right there for all to see on the side of the busy highway -- a statue of Jesús Malverde “narco-saint” or “angel of the poor” in a tuxedo standing next to a seated Santa Muerte in a wedding dress, encased in glass (fourth image down). Behind the monument was another building with a huge painting of Jesús Malverde surrounded by painted machine guns and Santa Muerte effigies (fifth image down). A small winding ladder lead up to another floor, which housed a Santa Muerte prayer chapel where an effigy of Santa Muerte stood, adorned by flowers and candles, with walls lined with plastic funeral arrangements (top image). This was the chapel where the rosary is said by 5,000 of the faithful on the first Monday of each month, and a major celebration in honor of Santa Muerte takes place on November 1, when the statue is dressed as a bride and decorated with hundreds of pieces of gold jewelry brought as gifts by those whom she has favored in the past year.

When one stepped outside to get the full view, they could see both floors – Jesús (life) on the bottom and Santa Muerte (death) on the top. “The Way” below and “Heaven” above.

I am not going to pretend that I understand the inner workings of Santa Muerte from a single visit to a market, a shrine and a chapel, but the image of the Lady Of Shadows and those who believe in her have stayed with the outcast in me.

Special thanks to all who made this adventure possible including Elizabeth, Estella, Cecilia, Atu, Tracy, Michael, Martin and Arnoldo.  

Source:
http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2013/02/santa-muerte-my-search-for-bony-lady.html

In just under two weeks, Morbid Anatomy is leaving Brooklyn and taking to the road! My first stop will be Italy, where I and Evan Michelson--star of TV's "Oddities" and Morbid Anatomy Library scholar in residence--will be spending three weeks collecting material for our ongoing book project investigating, in words and pictures, "the history of Western culture as revealed through the preservation and display of the human corpse." Evan and I plan to post regularly here about the amazing things we encounter, so stay tuned for that. In the short term, you can find out more about our project here.
After this, I will make my way  to London, where I will linger for about six months, producing along the way another series of lectures and events for the wonderful Hackney-based Last Tuesday Society and working on a few other projects; stay tuned for further details on that.

But anxious New York-based Morbid Anatomists, please do not despair! Morbid Anatomy Presents will continue on here much as before, in the able hands of Morbid Anatomy Head Librarian Laetitia Barbier, who will be overseeing the library and producing events in my stead. That said, if you would like to bid adieu to the current incarnation of Morbid Anatomy while also enjoying an illustrated lecture on the Victorian love of death with the artsinal cocktails and music of Friese Undine, I would love to see you this Friday, February 8th, for my "Victorian Love Affair with Death and the Art of Mourning Hair Jewelry/Morbid Anatomy Going Away Party" spectacular! Full details below.

If that does not interest, we have many more offerings in the coming weeks to intrigue and delight; for example, tomorrow night (Thursday, Feb. 7) we have Blake Schwarzenbach of the seminal punk band "Jawbreaker" and "Jets to Brazil" waxing poetic on "death as muse" and playing a musical set; later, we have a newly announced "Bat Skeleton in Glass Dome" workshop (finished piece shown above; March 3); an illustrated lecture on the cult of beautiful death in Vienna with drinks and music (February 12); two raccoon head taxidermy classes with rogue taxidermist Katie Innamorato (Feb. 9 and 23); and, for that special day, a Valentine's Day themed insect shadowbox class (Feb. 10) and a Valentine's Day lecture and reading with Tattoo Scholars Anna Felicity Friedman and Matt Lodder (Feb. 14)

Full details follow on all events; hope very much to see you at one or more of these terrific events!

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Death As Muse: An Intimate Evening With Blake Schwarzenbach, Musician, Painter, Jawbreaker, Forgetter
Date: Thursday, February 7
Time: 8:00 PM
Admission: $5
Presented by Morbid Anatomy'

From Dante to Donnie Darko perhaps no other idea has inspired more creative pursuits than life’s final act: death. Love, it could be argued, is a close second—and if that’s the case, let us bow down yet again to Woody Allen’s film, Love and Death.

Which brings us to the man at the darkened heart of tonight’s event: Blake Schwarzenbach, who has sampled a line from one of Mr. Allen’s films in a song. Schwarzenbach, you see, also knows from love and death.

As the singer, songwriter, and guitarist for the late, much-loved Bay Area punk trio Jawbreaker, Schwarzenbach once sang: “We met in rain, you asked me in, seemed like a good sign. Now I need a guillotine to get you off my mind.”?? With his newest group, Forgetters, he's gone darker.
How dark?

Here’s the cold data: Over 11 bloody tracks on the band’s eponymous–and somewhat psychedelic–new record, released in late 2012, there are roughly 27 lyrical variations on the word “death.” And there are multiple instances within just one song title: “O Deadly Death.”
That’s not to say Schwarzenbach doesn’t have a sense of humor. On an earlier Forgetters EP, after all, he cleverly made a verb out of tennis great John McEnroe (to throw a McEnroe is to have a very public fit.)

It is, in fact, the sui generis way Schwarzenbach balances light and dark, wit and warts, romance and rancor—both musically and lyrically—that makes his creative work so compelling. Or, as the writer Maccabee Montandon has put it: Schwarzenbach’s songs are “bounding, literate, often hyper-local anthems about pony-keg-powered house parties, girls he adored, girls he did not adore and books. Kerouac and cop killing live in a single lyrical line.”
On this evening, Schwarzenbach and Montandon will discuss the music, muses, and more: Schwarzenbach has grown increasingly interested in visual arts, painting and sculpting prolifically in his Brooklyn apartment; some of his pieces will be on display tonight. Following the conversation, Schwarzenbach will play solo acoustic versions of a few of his songs and take questions from the crowd. His own personal nine circles of hell revealed!

Image: "Impossible t-shirts" (a series). Blake Schwarzenbach. Pen, acrylic, graph paper. 2012.
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The Victorian Love Affair with Death and the Art of Mourning Hair Jewelry: Morbid Anatomy Going Away Party and Part Three of "Hairy Secrets" Series
Illustrated lecture with Art Historian and Master Jeweler Karen Bachmann and Morbid Anatomy Going Away Party, with Cocktails and Music by Friese Undine
Date: Friday, February 8 (Formerly January 31; Please note date change)
Time: 8:00 PM
Admission: $10
Presented by Morbid Anatomy
***Part 3 of a 3 part series "Hairy Secrets: Human Relic as Memory Object in Victorian Mourning Jewelry"

The Victorians had a love affair
with death which they expressed in a variety of ways, both intensely sentimental and macabre. Tonight's lecture--the last in a 3-part series on human relics and Victorian mourning jewelry--will take as its focus the apex of the phenomenon of hair jewelry fashion in the Victorian Era as an expression of this passion. Nineteenth century mourning rituals will be discussed, with a particular focus on Victorian hairwork jewelry, both palette worked and table worked. Also discussed will be the historical roots of the Victorian fascination with death, such as high mortality rates for both adults and children, the rise of the park cemetery, and the death of Queen Victoria's beloved Prince Albert and her subsequent fashion-influencing 40-year mourning period. Historical samples of hair art and jewelry from the lecturer's personal collection will also be shown.

Karen Bachmann is a fine jeweler with over 25 years experience, including several years on staff as a master jeweler at Tiffany & Co. She is a Professor in the Jewelry Design Dept at Fashion Institute of Technology as well as the School of Art & Design at Pratt Institute. She has recently completed her MA in Art History at SUNY Purchase with a thesis entitled "Hairy Secrets; Human Relic as Memory Object in Victorian Mourning Jewelry". In her downtime she enjoys collecting biological specimens, amateur taxidermy and punk rock.
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Raccoon Head Taxidermy Class with Rogue Taxidermist Katie Innamorato
Date: Saturday, February 9
Time: 11 – 5 PM
Admission: $350
***SOLD OUT; Email morbidanatomy [at] gmail.com to be added to wait list
This class is part of The Morbid Anatomy Art Academy

This course will introduce students to basic and fundamental taxidermy techniques and procedures. Students will be working with donated raccoon skins and will be going through the steps to do a head mount. The class is only available to 5 students, allowing for more one on one interaction and assistance. Students will be working with tanned and lightly prepped skin; there will be no skinning of the animals in class. This is a great opportunity to learn the basic steps to small and large mammal taxidermy. All materials will be supplied by the instructor, and you will leave class with your own raccoon head mount.

Rogue taxidermist Katie Innamorato has a BFA in sculpture from SUNY New Paltz, has been featured on the hit TV show "Oddities," and has had her work featured at La Luz de Jesus gallery in Los Angeles, California. She is self and professionally taught, and has won multiple first place ribbons and awards at the Garden State Taxidermy Association Competition. Her work is focussed on displaying the cyclical connection between life and death and growth and decomposition. Katie is a member of the Minnesota Association of Rogue Taxidermists, and with all M.A.R.T. members she adheres to strict ethical guidelines when acquiring specimens and uses roadkill, scrap, and donated skins to create mounts.
Her website and blogs-
http://www.afterlifeanatomy.com
http://www.afterlifeanatomy.tumblr.com
http://www.facebook.com/afterlifeanatomy
http://www.etsy.com/shop/afterlifeanatomy
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Anthropomorphic Insect Shadowbox Workshop: Special Valentine's Day Edition, with Former AMNH Senior Insect Preparator Daisy Tainton
With Daisy Tainton, Former Senior Insect Preparator at the American Museum of Natural History
Date: Sunday, February 10 (Special Valentine's Day Edition!)
Time: 1 - 4 PM
Admission: $65
***Must RSVP to morbidanatomy [at] gmail.com to be added to class list
This class is part of The Morbid Anatomy Art Academy

Today, join former AMNH Senior Insect Preparator Daisy Tainton for a special Valentine's Day-themed edition of Observatory's popular Anthropomorphic Insect Shadowbox Workshop. In this class, students will work with Rhinoceros beetles: nature's tiny giants. Each student will learn to make--and leave with their own!--shadowbox dioramas featuring carefully positioned beetles doing nearly anything you can imagine. Beetles and shadowboxes are provided, and an assortment of miniature furniture, foods, and other props will be available to decorate your habitat. Students need bring nothing, though are encouraged to bring along dollhouse props if they have a particular vision for their final piece; 1:12 scale work best.

Daisy Tainton was formerly Senior Insect Preparator at the American Museum of Natural History, and has been working with insects professionally for several years. Eventually her fascination with insects and  love of Japanese miniature food items naturally came together, resulting in cute and ridiculous museum-inspired yet utterly unrealistic dioramas. Beetles at the dentist? Beetles eating pie and knitting sweaters? Even beetles on the toilet? Why not?
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"Schöne Leiche," or "The Beautiful Corpse": The Cult of Beautiful Death in Vienna
Illustrated lecture by Mark 'Splatter' Batelli, with music and thematic cocktails
Date: Tuesday, February 12
Time: 8:00 PM
Admission: $8
Presented by Morbid Anatomy

Tonight's highly illustrated lecture will explore the special Viennese relationship to death as exemplified by their notion of Schöne Leiche, or the "Beautiful Corpse." Batelli will trace the history of this distinctive approach to mortality and discuss funerary customs, mourning culture, black humor, idiom, art, music, suicide and psychology, providing examples and exploring its origins and development in the former imperial capital. Before and after the lecture, enjoy special thematic "Death in Vienna" cocktails and music.

Mark 'Splatter' Batelli is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. He lived 5 years In Berlin and traveled extensively travels through Europe, spending much time in Vienna.
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Tragic Tattoo Tales: A Valentine’s Day Lecture and Reading with Tattoo Scholars Anna Felicity Friedman and Matt Lodder
Illustrated lecture and reading with tattoo scholars Anna Felicity Friedman and Matt Lodder
Date: Thursday, February 14 (Yes, Valentine's Day!)
Time: 8:00 PM
Admission: $5
Presented by Morbid Anatomy

Love, loss… and disfigurement, murder, and flayed skin (with a bit of cannibalism and sadism thrown in for good measure). What better way to spend your Valentine’s Day evening than to join us for a glass of red wine, a bite of delicious chocolate, and a lecture on the history of tattooing combined with a reading of a series of historical tattoo-centered short stories by authors such as Roald Dahl (1958), Saki (1911), Junichiro Tanazaki (1910) and John Rickman (1781)?

Tonight, please join us for an evening with tattoo scholars Anna Felicity Friedman and Matt Lodder (both heavily tattooed themselves) who will lecture about and read tales that interweave tattoo history with romance and the macabre. Through illustrated slide lectures, Drs. Friedman and Lodder will present comparative historical material to provide context and deeper understanding and to separate fact from fiction. Learn about wide ranging tattoo topics in both Western and non-Western cultures and have questions answered that the stories raise. Did people really preserve tattooed skin? What were people reading about tattoos in the early twentieth century? Were Maori really tattooed head to foot? What were the connections between Ukiyo-e and Japanese tattooing in the Edo period?

And the stories… Come hear the account of a young Maori woman and an English sailor who had himself completely tattooed to gain her favor, only to be forcibly returned to his ship (in John Rickman’s 1781 travel narrative from Captain James Cook’s third voyage). Cringe at the tale of a businessman tattooed in Italy with an elaborate scene, but who was prohibited from ever showing it to anyone, swimming, or leaving the country (in Saki’s 1911 “The Background”). Shudder at the story of a Japanese woman lured into a tattooer’s studio, drugged, and forcibly tattooed (in Junichiro Tanazaki’s 1910 “Shisei (The Tattooer)”. Enjoy the fantasy of a young and not-yet famous Chaim Soutine who, during a bacchanalian evening, rendered a dorsal portrait of a tattoo artist’s wife that later mysteriously turns up as a “canvas” in an art gallery (in Roald Dahl’s 1952 “Skin”). Additional images related to the stories will be screened during the readings.
Chocolate and red wine will make things festive.

Anna Felicity Friedman has been researching the history of tattooing for over 20 years. Her recently completed PhD, from the University of Chicago, focuses on tattooed transculturites—Europeans and Americans who acquired non-Western tattoos as part of a process of cultural identity transformation. Her photoblog, Tattoo History Daily, offers glimpses into myriad aspects of tattoo history. An interdisciplinary scholar, she has taught, written, and lectured about body art, maps, rare books, and other sundry topics, works as a freelance curator, and currently teaches hybrid literature/film/art courses at the University of Chicago.

Matt Lodder is a London-based art historian. His work is primarily concerned with the history of Western tattooing and the artistic status of body art and body modification practices including tattooing, body piercing and cosmetic surgery. He writes regularly for Total Tattoo magazine, gives public lectures on tattoo history and related topics, works as a freelance writer and broadcaster for both radio and television, and teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in contemporary art and theory at the University of Reading and the University of Birmingham. He is currently writing a book called 'Tattoo: An Art History' for IB Tauris, due for publication in 2014.
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Raccoon Head Taxidermy Class with Rogue Taxidermist Katie Innamorato
Date: Saturday, February 23
Time: 11 – 5 PM
Admission: $350
***SOLD OUT; Email morbidanatomy [at] gmail.com to be added to wait list
This class is part of The Morbid Anatomy Art Academy

This course will introduce students to basic and fundamental taxidermy techniques and procedures. Students will be working with donated raccoon skins and will be going through the steps to do a head mount. The class is only available to 5 students, allowing for more one on one interaction and assistance. Students will be working with tanned and lightly prepped skin; there will be no skinning of the animals in class. This is a great opportunity to learn the basic steps to small and large mammal taxidermy. All materials will be supplied by the instructor, and you will leave class with your own raccoon head mount.

Rogue taxidermist Katie Innamorato has a BFA in sculpture from SUNY New Paltz, has been featured on the hit TV show "Oddities," and has had her work featured at La Luz de Jesus gallery in Los Angeles, California. She is self and professionally taught, and has won multiple first place ribbons and awards at the Garden State Taxidermy Association Competition. Her work is focussed on displaying the cyclical connection between life and death and growth and decomposition. Katie is a member of the Minnesota Association of Rogue Taxidermists, and with all M.A.R.T. members she adheres to strict ethical guidelines when acquiring specimens and uses roadkill, scrap, and donated skins to create mounts.
Her website and blogs-
http://www.afterlifeanatomy.com
http://www.afterlifeanatomy.tumblr.com
http://www.facebook.com/afterlifeanatomy
http://www.etsy.com/shop/afterlifeanatomy
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Bat Skeleton in Glass Dome Workshop: Part of DIY Wunderkammer Series
With Wilder Duncan (formerly of Evolution Shop, Soho) and Laetitia Barbier, head librarian at The Morbid Anatomy Library
Date: Sunday, March 3
Time: 1 – 6 PM
Admission: $200
*** MUST RSVP to Laetitia [at] atlasobscura.com to RSVP
This class is part of the DIY Wunderkammer Series and The Morbid Anatomy Art Academy

In this class, students will learn how to create an osteological preparation of a bat in the fashion of 19th century zoological displays. A bat skeleton, a glass dome, branches, glue, tools, and all necessary materials will be provided for each student, but one should feel welcome to bring small feathers, stones, dried flowers, dead insects, natural elements, or any other materials s/he might wish to include in his/her composition. Students will leave the class with a visually striking, fully articulated, “lifelike” bat skeleton posed in a 10” tall glass dome. This piece can, in conjunction with the other creations in the DIY Wunderkammer workshop series, act as the beginning of a genuine collection of curiosities!

This class is part of the DIY Wunderkammer workshop series, curated by Laetitia Barbier and Wilder Duncan for Morbid Anatomy as a creative and pluridisciplinary exploration of the Curiosity Cabinet. The classes will focus on teaching ancient methods of specimen preparation that link science with art: students will create compositions involving natural elements and, according to their taste, will compose a traditional Victorian environment or a modern display. More on the series can be found here.

Wilder Duncan is an artist whose work puts a modern-day spin on the genre of Vanitas still life. Although formally trained as a realist painter at Wesleyan University, he has had a lifelong passion for, and interest in, natural history. Self-taught rogue taxidermist and professional specimen preparator, Wilder worked for several years at The Evolution Store creating, repairing, and restoring objects of natural historical interest such as taxidermy, fossils, seashells, minerals, insects, tribal sculptures, and articulated skeletons both animal and human. Wilder continues to do work for private collectors, giving a new life to old mounts, and new smiles to toothless skulls.

Laetitia Barbier is the head librarian at The Morbid Anatomy Library. She is working on a master's thesis for the Paris Sorbonne on painter Joe Coleman. She writes for Atlas Obscura and Morbid Anatomy.

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You can find out more about all of these events here, or sign up for them on Facebook by clicking here.

Photo of bat preparation by Laetitia Barbier.Source:
http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2013/02/morbid-anatomy-bon-voyage-party-and.html

Why Patients Should Know the Anatomy of the Mouth
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The Anatomy of the Grant King Stock car.
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Anatomy Atlas - Misconception (live)

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TUNNEL THE MOVIE - ANATOMY OF THE ACCIDENT SCENE - BY THE DIRECTOR, STANLEE OHIKHUARE
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21NR9::Anatomy of a Dig.
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Grey #39;s Anatomy S09E14 Part 3 HD
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Anatomy of a $NQ_F and $CL_F Swing Trade @misstrademember
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On last week's installment of "Grey's Anatomy," it looked like April (Sarah Drew) could be moving on from Jackson (Jesse Williams) when a paramedic (Justin Bruening) adorably admitted to creeping on her and then asked her out for coffee.

But could she and Jackson really be over for good? "She's pleasantly surprised to have somebody take an interest in her," Drew told The Hollywood Reporter. "It catches her a little off-guard."

"I like Jackson and April together a lot," "Grey's Anatomy" creator Shonda Rhimes told The Hollywood Reporter. "When they broke up, April seemed so relieved that she wasn't pregnant and that they didn't have to get married and Jackson was very hurt ... That was the moment when you saw how Jackson really felt about April: he was all in and she wasn't."

But now, Jackson seems to have moved on ... at least physically, since he's been rolling around in the on-call room with intern Stephanie (Jerrika Hinton). "We'll see what that ends up meaning," Rhimes added.

One thing Jackson and Stephanie's hookup could mean is fireworks for Jo (Camilla Luddington) and Alex (Justin Chambers), according to Luddington.

"They bond over Stephanie and Jackson hooking up. They kind of make fun of that. And Jo is working on PEDS with him again, so they are taking cases together," she told TVLine. "Of course, theres a panic right now going on in the hospital; everyone is afraid theyre going to lose their jobs, and thats something that brings everybody together -- including those two."

The guarded intern and her mentor-turned-flirting buddy have been dancing around a potential relationship for a while now. "Over the next few episodes they continue to bond," Luddington added, noting she's not sure that bond will go from platonic to romantic. "I think they would be great together. But who knows? On this show Ive seen so many people end up dating other people."

Find out more about what's to come on the Jan. 31 installment of "Grey's Anatomy," titled "Bad Blood," in the official episode description:

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"Grey's Anatomy" airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. EST on ABC.

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'Grey's Anatomy': Will Alex And Jo Get Togther? Will April Move On From Jackson?

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"Grey's Anatomy's" Jessica Capshaw and Sara Ramirez

Grey's Anatomy's Arizona Robbins is on the road to recovery from the deadly plane crash that ultimately claimed the lives of Mark and Lexie -- and her leg. But according to co-star Jessica Capshaw, she'll hit a major hurdle Thursday when Arizona begins suffering from Phantom Limb Syndrome. During the hour, Capshaw tells The Hollywood Reporter that the "spooky" story line will rattle Arizona to the point of her turning to a Seattle Grace cohort for support in shaking the very real feeling dreams.

THR caught up with Capshaw on Wednesday to preview the episode and discuss Arizona's recovery, mending her relationship with Callie (Sara Ramirez) and if she'll ever find out about Alex performing the amputation.

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THR: Arizona is suffering from Phantom Limb Syndrome. How will we see her battle that? Jessica Capshaw: It's very real and the writers have done such an incredible job of being so responsible for researching the challenges that Arizona would face. It has felt like a very important part of the storytelling in terms of what someone might go through who has had this happen to them. It starts in dream sequences with Arizona understanding this pain through her dreams. She ends up trying to hide it from Callie because she really wants to move on. After the grief and the loss, Arizona is trying to rebuild and figure it out again. She wants to keep [her suffering] separate from Callie because she wants to magically make it disappear. But it is unrelenting so she ends up seeking council. After it doesn't go away, Owen (Kevin McKidd) ends up helping her with different therapies. It's a great story -- it's kind of spooky and a little bit dark but with the same heart that beats throughout the entire tone of the show. It's like a child when you dreamed of falling out of bed and felt like it was a real sensation -- these are dreams that feel that real to her. The loss of one's leg -- or any limb -- is a deeply profound thing so then having this situation when she feels it not there, it's mind-bending.

THR: Might we see her flash back to her four days in the woods before being rescued? Capshaw: No but there is a flashing of sorts (laughs). It's more dreamy but there are parts where she harkens back to what she was before the limb loss.

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THR: Would those flashbacks involve wheelie sneakers? Capshaw:(Laughs) No, but that would be great! With the way viewers seem to feel about the wheelie sneakers, I feel like that will be the ultimate vindication that she's completely back when she can rock those!

THR: Arizona and Callie made tremendous strides during their getaway at Bailey's wedding. How might that progress? Might we see her call Callie "Calliope" again soon in that sweet Arizona fashion? Capshaw: I don't know the last time she called her Calliope! I think it's been forever! As I said in the beginning of the season, we're not teeing up a story of defeat. Ultimately, we want to see both of these characters find their way back to the relationship that they were in prior to the devastation [of the plane crash]. Arizona is coming back to herself as a doctor and making her way back to herself as a partner and as someone in a relationship and figuring out how to show up for that. Everybody wants to hurry for the big happy ending but the journey back to it is incredibly interesting as well. I get it, I root for characters that I love on TV shows but the truth is you wouldn't want to watch them be happy every single week. I love watching them take their baby steps and figuring out how to go back to being what they were before this loss.

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