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Familiar faces

Posted in Creativity, Culture, Travel & Tourism, tagged faces, Mexico, murals, Oaxaca, photos, popular travel destinations, stencils, street art, urban art, wall art on September 9, 2020| 14 Comments »

Over these seemingly countless Covid-19 months, instead of frequently running into friends on the streets, these are the familiar faces that make me smile and help keep me feeling rooted to place.

They may not talk, but they do speak to me.

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Muertos murals in progress

Posted in Celebrations, Creativity, Culture, Holidays, Travel & Tourism, tagged calacas, Catrinas, Day of the Dead, Día de los Muertos, faces, Mexico, murals, Oaxaca, photos, popular travel destinations, skeletons, skulls, street art, Villa de Zaachila, wall art on October 30, 2018| 4 Comments »

Not all the Día de los Muertos murals in Villa de Zaachila were finished, some were still works in progress…

with ladders and paints standing by…

waiting for their artists to pick up the brush…

or spray can, as the case may be.

I first saw many of the murals in the summer of 2017 and was happy to see they are still intact, albeit some are a little faded. Celebrated by the community, the new murals join the old and become a part of the landscape of the village.