When I travel, there are so many special moments that I try to capture with my heart, and my camera. Today I want to share one of those moments with you.
During my recent visit to Mexico City, I took a day to tour through the city with friends. We started our day visiting the giant wholesale flower market – Mercado Jamaica.
We parked on the street, in front of a huge mural that stretches 2 blocks long and is about 20 feet high. It is huge! I stood among the parked cars, trying to capture images of the people walking by in front of the mural, with armloads of flowers.
Mexico City is a city of murals, with Diego Rivera’s work everywhere you go, in old and new buildings across the sprawling metropolis.
There is a new breed of muralists who see themselves as Street Artists, or Graffiti Artists. The painters who created this monster mural are part of a collective called Germen, cofounded by Jonathan Ulsis Mendez and Luis Enrique Gómez Guzmán.
As Graffiti and Tagging have evolved into Street Art as a respected art form, it has cleared the way for many young artists’ work to be shared with the public. The urge to fill a wall with color and design inspires quilters and street artists alike, and occasionally we see a quilt that is big enough to be a mural. When a quilt takes on the role of Public Art, it allows a message to be broadcast to passers by, giving a visual exclamation mark with no words spoken.
I’ve added a few of our flower fabrics to give you the feeling of the flower market – surrounded by baskets and buckets of fragrance and color for acres and acres!
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