The angel of the Magic mountain. On December ’20, we rented a house for Xmas in Tepoztlan. A small town an hour away from Mexico city. I may have posted this one from another angle. We only went out of the house one Sunday, early, to catch some street art. A year and change already… I keep wondering when this madness will end. Will it?
Siesta time… (Where’s the art? Ask the dog.)
The tequila God. (Methink)
“That is my word”. (The volutes coming from the mouth are a pre-Columbian symbol of speech). Follow the wall to the right:
“Let the deer talk to the tree…”
A difficult mural to catch…(I should learn to do panoramics on the I-phone.) I hope you got the idea.
Two birds…
…and no stone. (Well. On the sidewalk yes.)
A Chinelo dancer painted this wall. (Guy with black hat and beard)
Another Chinelo watches over the bank. The Chinelos, also known as “huehuetzin”, “he who wears old clothes”, are typical of the state of Morelos, South of Mexico city. The bearded face represents the Spanish conqueror. Chinelo representations are ever present across the state. (Even in parts of Mexico city one can see them dancing on the street.)
One of thousands of Colonial churches across the country. 16th-17th century…
“Scented candles. Delicious Pulque”. Pulque is a fermented drink based on agave. Same plant as tequila. And that is probably the God of Agave. (Ain’t had time to do no research…)
“When the rooster crows at the break o’ dawn.
“Look out your window, and I’ll be gone…”
(Dylan. I’ve used those lyrics before, haven’t I?)
No idea. Drew a blank. Suggestions for a caption anyone? Well, it is now the “Floral Mandala” by Derrick’s suggestion, seconded by Yvette… 👏🏻
The dragonfly told the bird to hide the key of the beetle. (Flyingbeetle is a collective of street art led by an artist called Judy Wray)
“Breast feeding.” Two visions (representations)…
…of women… “Achis achis retro food”. What on earth can “retro food” be? Two eggs over easy?
Retired Chinelo dancer.
La llorona. The weeper. An old myth that can be found in many places of Latin America. (French Anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss did a study of myths across America from British Colombia to Tierra del fuego. His conclusion was that, structurally, the same myths could be found all over the Americas. Similar characters, similar stories. Sometimes the good guy became the bad guy and vice-versa, but basically the same story. Which means that the migrants who came from Asia around 20-12,000 BC carried their stories with them. All the way form Asia. Told them around the fire at night. Then moved on.
Thank you for flying Equinoxio Airways. Your company is always a pleasure. Be good.
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Mexico must be Mural State number one. High quality, and your explanations are very useful. What are the coloured fabric things on the breast feeding mural? (And is the mural meant to encourage women to breast feed?) The strict looking rooster is wonderfuly done and the ‘retro food’ one is cool! A burger and a coke served by a waitress on rollerskates. That IS retro and I hope it will revive someday. 🙂
There is very good street art here. Just got fantastic pieces this week-end as we got our 4th jab a bit far away form home…
The coloured things seem to be turtle felp toys. And yes the mural is to encourage breast feeding. particularly in rural areas where the water is not too good, powder milk is expensive AND breast feeding IS much better.
Retro should revive. 🤞
Tot ziens Peter.
Very nice.
It’s easy to see where the influence for album covers such as Santana’s, Abraxas may have come from.
Hope all’s well in your neck of the woods, Brian?
Yes, you might be on to something. I had to look up the cover. I’d forgotten it. What a marvel it was.
All well here, as much as can be. Le Pen has been pushed back again. I hope little Macron will understand he needs to make a few changes… 😉
Got our 4th jab…
Take care Mate.
Quite a variety of subjects and styles. It’s very grey here today, so it was good to see some color.
So glad I could send some colour up North. I have a feeling from yours and other blogs that the winter “up North” is dragging on…
Yes, winter’s been dragging on this year. Spring will get here eventually. Sort of.
It will. Law of nature. Just a matter of patience.
Yep. Then when summer comes, it’s a matter of taking care not to blink and miss it.
LOL.
These were fantastic … again … thanks for sharing! I remember that Joan Baez had a song about La Llorona in her Spanish repertoire. I remember the music, but not the lyrics. I had to look it up, of course, https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=joan+baez+la+llorona&view=detail&mid=7C4EB2B420F0BE5B41E77C4EB2B420F0BE5B41E7&FORM=VIRE
Of course you would know. (How’s your arthritis? Can you play again?) Hopping to your link.
Just listened to her. I might have heard that song by her once or twice. She really is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. (And if I recall correctly she doesn’t speak Spanish, got lost along the way, but her diction is perfect) Muchas gracias for the song.
De nada! I have a record by her with only Spanish songs and one in Catalan.
LP’s I imagine? 😉
(I still have 90% of my old LP’s. Even singles)
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These are fantastic, again! Thank you for sharing!
Joan Baez had a song called La Llorona in her Spanish repertoire. I remember the music, but not the lyrics. I had to look it up, of course … https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=joan+baez+la+llorona&view=detail&mid=7C4EB2B420F0BE5B41E77C4EB2B420F0BE5B41E7&FORM=VIRE
Intriguing wall art Brian. The streets are apparently vacant but for the sleeping dog. I esp like the symbolism of breast feeding while tending to errands, those ladies were tough.
This was December 25th, 2020, early in the morning. No vaccines yet to speak of. We went into town early to avoid crowds… And the dog was very cosy.
Breast feeding on errands, yes. When you’re a farmer woman, you can’t stop working can you? And that is still the way. Tough…
All well Coeur de Feu? (I have your posts in my mail. I’ll get to them soon…) 🙏🏻💕
All is well, I hope you are good too. Wonderful tours dear Brian. I enjoy! 💕🙏
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Once again you have come up with an amazing collection of mural and street art,Brian. I was fascinated by the mandala, the photo without a caption and even more so by the breastfeeding representations. May I ask what the brightly coloured items in the foreground were?
Takk “Astrid”.
They’re turtles. Stuffed toys.
What a relief! I envisaged those turtles were some kind of colourful breastfeeding pad (to stop leakages), given the mural behind them. What does that say about my mind! I was a breastfeeding mums for a combined total of 5 years – my excuse.
No need for excuse. it made sense. But that was a street vendor. Could have been selling toy cars or transformers… Bon week-end.
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The dear and the tree was so interesting and gorgeous
Thank you for sharing
It’s a good example of some street here: long walls which allow for elaborate composition. As an aside, those are subsidized by Comex, the #1 paint manufacturer here. A great intiative.
Hope all is well with you?
This was absolutely wonderful. The artwork…fabulous. Thank you.
Pleasure Gigi. I understand you guys “up north” are still in winter… A bit of colour can’t hurt. 🙏🏻
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One of the reasons I love being an expat in Mexico – nice pics
Indeed. Lots of nice pix everywhere. Thanks for your visit and comment.
Wonderful artistry!
Thank you Cindy. bear in mind the timing, we’d just been locked up for almost a year, so it was wonderful to sneak out in the street and see all this art.
Hope all is well?
Wonderful Brian…love the siesta 🤓you could add your works to this maybe you already know it 🤓
https://streetartcities.com/
Sending joy ~ hedy 💃
Joy well received, grateful, and sending back some and some sun)
(Moving to that link)
No, I didn’t know about them. I saved the link, to explore how to contribute. Tot ziens Hedy. 💕
The rooster mural is very life-like.
Thank you for another fabulous walk through Mexico!
Piaccere amica. That rooster was impressive. A bit deteriorated by time already, but I always impressed by the talent of those artists. Most of it is done with spray cans…
They’re fabulous artists!
All over the world. I hope they manage to make a living…
An especially good collection to produce with an iPhone. Would Floral Mandala do for your caption?
Floral mandala would be good. It does look like a mandala actually. Thanks Derrick.
I like that caption idea Derrick
Thank you, Yvette
Done. Post updated. 😉
These are so beautiful. The breatstfeeding one really stands out for me though. I’ve seen a few shows from the US that were terribly against breastfeeding (like The View). It is wonderful to celebrate this. In a way, it is as magical as babies itself.
Shows against breastfeedind? Must have been republican shows… And yes it is magical… 🧙♂️ (This little guy popped up when I wrote magical 🧙♀️ )
Ha ha, cute. I’m still waiting for garden gnomes! ✨ Fingers crossed. One day …
I guess it depends on your computer. I have a Mac, and this is recent feature. (It also tells me my Mac “reads” and understands everything I write and probably sends it all to Palo Alto. 😳
He he, make sure to listen to your music with Alexa; just to distribute your data evenly.
LOL. That is the. main reason I absolutely refuse to “have” Alexa. Even if various friends work with Amazon. I don’t want more data sent away…
😉 I know the thread has to end at some point … I just had to think of that kid (parents in IT, Alexa at home) who was screaming at our record player cause he didn’t like the music 🎶🎵
That is a great story. And perfectly understandable… Our grandson can’t read yet, but he explained to my wife how the screen of our new car worked and how to connect our phones into the system…
Another nice piece of visual tourism. It was barely above freezing this morning in Michigan so your post allowed me to bask in a bit of color and warmth. You did a fine job of capturing the wide mural but if you want to know how to take panos on your iphone, this is a good tutorial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9faiU1ClAiA
I wish I could can the sun and heat and send it up North. Thanks for the Tuto. I’ll look it up… merci.
Contente d’avoir pris “Equinoxio Airways” pour ce voyage coloré.
Bonne fin de semaine Brieuc
Ravi de t’avoir eu à bord, Mélie. J’espère que le service était bon?
Bon ouiquande à toi aussi. Biz.
Merci
Week-end sous le soleil 🙂
Bonne fin de semaine à toi aussi
Biz
Sous le soleil? (Exactement). Super. Enjoy.
biz back.
What a wonderful series of Street Art, as always. They’re always so colourful. I love the captions too and I tried to think of one for the blank – maybe flowering art, one-eyed mandala,??
It does look like a mandala right? I’m gonna have to look up some mandala images… Cheers.
Awesome art (as usual)
And regarding the one you mentioned about getting a panoramic with the cell – well
I actually like the way you did it –
The first one let is see it from a farther view and then you have us closer and straight on view of the right side
I find that some panoramic images are too long (wide) with less detail – they have their place –
But I don’t really like pano photos that much
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And the house rental sounds like a great way to spend the holiday
Not sure about panos either. Which is why I haven’t really tried. One my daughters is an expert. In fact, what I would like is to do a pano, then individual shots of each major segment…
And yes that rental was a breath of fresh air after almost a year of lockdown.
The individual images and the pano sound like a good combo –
Will work on it…
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Avec tes photos, je voyage.
Merci Brieuc.
Bonne journée
Biz
Je vais monter une agence de voyages virtuelle. Bonne soirée Mélie. Biz.
(On est en Mai. À quand la piscine?)
Un joli mois de mai sous la pluie 😀
Hah! C’est bon pour les cultures (et encore) mais pas pour le moral. Tiens bon.