… and danger!
Doorways propped up with 2x4s, yellow caution tape, and continuing aftershocks — this is one of the many buildings in Oaxaca that has me walking on the opposite, even if sunny, side of the street.
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Abandoned beauty
Posted in Buildings, Creativity, Travel & Tourism, tagged abandoned buildings, buildings, crumbling walls, doors, Mexico, Oaxaca, photographs, photos on March 22, 2018| 2 Comments »
Lovely Oaxaca 2017
Posted in Celebrations, Creativity, Culture, Holidays, Travel & Tourism, tagged Año Nuevo, agave, buildings, Chapulines, chicken on a spit, dried chiles, fog, garbage trucks, grilling, Linda Oaxaca song, metate, Mexico, molinillo, Museo Textil de Oaxaca, New Year's Eve, Oaxaca, photographs, photos, popular travel destinations, Quinceañera, Shibori, traje on December 31, 2017| 20 Comments »
A challenging year 2017 was — for Oaxaca, Mexico, USA, and the world. However, lovely Oaxaca continues to survive with beauty and grace and helps keep me focused on trying to do the same. I am grateful to her every day. Thus, my New Year’s gift to you — sharing a month-by-month look back at the little things in 2017 that nourished my body and soul.
January 2017 – Shibori flags flying over the courtyard of the Museo Textil de Oaxaca
February 2017 – Agave somewhere between San Dionisio Ocotepec and Ocotlán de Morelos
March 2017 – Quinceañera celebration in front of Santo Domingo de Guzmán
April 2017 – Chapulines at the first Encuentro de Cocineras Tradicionales Oaxaca
May 2017 – Teotitlán del Valle’s garbage truck.
June 2017 – Grinding lime tree leaves for té de limon in Teotitlán del Valle
July 2017 – Six layer rainy season view from Casita Colibrí
August 2017 – Unión de Palenqueros de Oaxaca — and that means mezcal!
September 2017 – Chickens roasting at earthquake relief benefit at Criollo restaurant
October 2017 – Grilling at an outdoor “hall of smoke” in Villa de Mitla
November 2017 – Dried chiles at Mercado Benito Juárez
December 2017 – Decorated molinillos at the Feria del Pan y el Chocolate in Tlacolula de Matamoros
In the words of Linda Oaxaca, “Oaxaca you live in me.” From my home to yours, adiós 2017 and bienvenidos 2018!!!
Oaxaca preps for Guelaguetza
Posted in Culture, photographs, photos, Renovation, Travel & Tourism, tagged booths, buildings, Calle García Vigil, canopy, construction workers, Feria Internacional del Mezcal, Guelaguetza, Guelaguetza Auditorium, Llano Park, Oaxaca, popular travel destinations, puestos, velaria on July 14, 2016| 1 Comment »
From top to bottom, Guelaguetza preparations are in full swing. There is yet another attempt in the Never-ending tale of a velaria, as workers scramble hundreds of feet in the air to add the missing “wings” to the Guelaguetza Auditorium canopy.
Workmen are prepping buildings in the Historic District for fresh coats of paint.
Construction is underway in Llano Park (aka, Paseo Juárez “El Llano”) to ready it for the XIX Feria Internacional del Mezcal 2016.
Near the top of Macedonio Alcalá (aka, Andador Turístico), puestos (booths) have been erected for artisans, invited from throughout the state, to display and (hopefully) sell their wares.
And, everyone is holding their breath and making offerings to the gods overseeing phase two of the García Vigil pedestrian walkway that the work will be completed before the first Guelaguetza desfile (parade of delegations) on July 23.
And, me? I just bought tickets to the Mole Festival degustación at the Jardín Etnobotánico on July 22! Yummm…
Posters for Ayotzinapa
Posted in Creativity, Culture, Exhibitions, People, Politics, Tragedy, Violence, tagged art, Ayotzinapa, buildings, Carteles por Ayotzinapa, Damian Kłaczkiewicz, Daniela Diaz, Excuela Normal Rural Raúl Burgos, Francisco Toledo, graphic arts, IAGO, Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca, International Poster Biennial, México fracturado por Ayotzinapa, Mexico, Normal Rural Ayotzinapa, normalistas, Oaxaca, photographs, photos, poster art, student teachers, students on May 26, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Eight months and counting… Tonight, eight months ago, 43 students from the Escuela Normal Rural Raúl Isidro Burgos teachers’ college in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero went missing. I am sadly resigned that marking this horrific anniversary has become a regular feature on my blog. As a mother, a guest resident of Mexico, and someone who believes that the peoples of the world deserve social justice, I can’t ignore this tragedy.
I dare you to leave Carteles por Ayotzinapa, the current exhibition at Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca (IAGO), with a dry eye. The 49 posters on display are only a fraction of the over 700 posters submitted to the First International Poster Biennial 2014 Convocation Ayotzinapa, an initiative of Oaxaca’s internationally renown artist, Francisco Toledo. In addition to Mexico, artists from Argentina to Greece; Iran to Lebanon; and Poland to the USA responded to his call, recognizing as Toledo explained, the tragedy of Ayotzinapa has outraged people from beyond the borders of Mexico.
Photo courtesy of Oaxaca Media
Irwin Homero Carreño Garnica, a graphic design student, originally from Ocotlán de Morelos, Oaxaca, was awarded first prize for his heartbreaking work, “México fracturado por Ayotzinapa” (Mexico fractured by Ayotzinapa). As you can see above, it is a map of Mexico in the shape of a skeleton, with a break in the femur, where Ayotzinapa, Guerrero is located. Like the work of the Tlacolulokos, the use of an iconic image (skeleton) and a primary palette of black, white, and greys, increases the emotional impact, much like Picasso’s, “Guernica.”
Second place was won by Damian Kłaczkiewicz (Poland) and third place went to Daniela Diaz (Mexico). The three winning posters will be reproduced for distribution throughout Mexico.
The exhibition runs through June 26, 2015.
A splash of orange
Posted in Celebrations, Creativity, Culture, Places, Travel & Tourism, tagged brass band, buildings, Carnaval, Centro de las Artes de San Agustín, Día del Barrendero, Mexico, monos, murals, Oaxaca, orange, plants, popular travel destinations, San Juan Guelavia, San Martín Tilcajete, signs, street art, trucks, Viernes del Llano, wall art on March 10, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Pick a color, any color, and you will find it in Oaxaca, be it people…
Mural, San Juan Guelavía
Banda, Viernes del Llano
Wall in the city of Oaxaca
Carnaval, San Martín Tilcajete
Mono on the Plaza de la Danza – Día del Barrendero
Places or things…
Centro de las Artes de San Agustín, San Agustín Etla
Truck on city street
Sign on telephone pole on Crespo
Centro de las Artes de San Agustín, San Agustín Etla
Wall art on Berriozabal in Oaxaca
Today, I choose orange. Tomorrow, who knows???
This is a good spot
Posted in Buildings, Creativity, Culture, Signs, Travel & Tourism, tagged abandoned buildings, artists, buildings, dangerous, Mexico, Oaxaca, photographs, photos, popular travel destinations, SCOM, street art, urban art graffiti, wall art on June 8, 2014| 6 Comments »
The “buildings in a bad state” in Oaxaca continue to multiply.
Where some see unsightly decay, others see opportunity…
including urban artist, SCOM.
Property in a bad state
Posted in Buildings, tagged abandoned buildings, buildings, dangerous, Mexico, Oaxaca, photographs, photos on February 5, 2013| 3 Comments »
43 houses at risk of collapse, the October 2012 Noticias headline screamed! This is up from 23 dangerous old buildings discussed in my July 2011, Old and dangerous post. The “high degree of deterioration” of properties in the historic district of Oaxaca seems to be an annual topic.
The most recent article came at the end of the 2012 rainy season and the article noted that in the preceding week the walls of two abandoned houses had collapsed due to the softening of building materials. I’m pretty sure the bottom right photo is of one of those walls. And 6 months later, it’s still in the same state of disrepair.
Picturesque? Yes! Dangerous??? Oh, yes!!!
Cyber cactus?
Posted in Buildings, Gardens, tagged buildings, cactus, Internet, Internet cafe, Inter_NetJoly, Mexico, Oaxaca, photography, photos on September 20, 2012| 2 Comments »
Beyond the broken window…
Posted in Buildings, tagged abandoned buildings, buildings, Mexico, Oaxaca, photographs, photos, rubble on May 28, 2012| 3 Comments »
It may look like a dilapidated building on the outside, but you never know what lies behind those walls.
Sometimes, when the timing is right the massive iron gates are opened to let the residents pass in or out, one catches a glimpse of a courtyard filled with lush tropical plants, splashes of bright colors, a stone pathway winding its way through a garden, and often a burbling fountain to block the sounds of the city.
Other times, what lies beyond, is nothing more than as advertised! But, beautiful in its own way…
It’s all in the numbers
Posted in Buildings, tagged buildings, Chiapas, Coyoacán, Federal District, Mexico, Mexico City, numbers, Oaxaca, San Cristóbal de las Casas on March 29, 2012| Leave a Comment »
In Coyoacán, Federal District of Mexico City…
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas…
And Oaxaca…
The zeros have it!
Visual rehabilitation…
Posted in Buildings, Labor, Renovation, tagged buildings, Mexico, Oaxaca, painters, renovation, SINFRA, workers on January 20, 2012| 2 Comments »
A clean-looking Oaxaca, brought to you by Oaxaca’s Secretary of Infrastructure.
According to the state government’s website, a 45 million peso project was launched to “visually rehabilitate” 94,000 buildings in 25 urban communities. Begun in July in San Bartolo Coyotepec (14 miles south of Oaxaca City), it has now reached my ‘hood.
Ladders, paint buckets, and painters up and down the block.
By the way, because this is the Centro Histórico, the colors are selected from a previously approved palette. Baby blue? I wonder if the owners of the buildings have any say…
Old and dangerous!
Posted in Buildings, tagged abandoned buildings, buildings, dangerous, Mexico, Oaxaca, photographs, photos on July 2, 2011| 2 Comments »
Viejas peligrosas was the headline of an article in yesterday’s Noticias, chronicling the dangerous old buildings in the 484-block historic center of Oaxaca. According to the article, 23 properties are at high risk of falling, are magnets for trash disposal, and are sources of disease.
Although en español, I encourage even non Spanish speakers to take a look at the revealing slideshow of some of the more egregious, but highly photogenic, properties at the end of the article.
In addition, I’d like to nominate this building:
And, what do you think about the roof???
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