One of my favorite quotes is “For the unenlightened, a thousand books of a thousand pages would be insufficient, but for the enlightened, one word would be too many” and maybe that is the case with the photos below. But as another of my favorites says, “fools rush in….” so if no one else will comment, I will.
People always figure out ways to express themselves, no matter how repressive the atmosphere. In the states, we have The Daily Show and Colbert. We have come to the fork in the road when we must ask, “Can a comedian do any worse as president?”
Maybe there is comedy resistance in Oaxaca, but I have not seen it, but they do have graffiti that has evolved into a high art, in my opinion. I have been taking photos of it for weeks.
These pictures are an encapsulation of life in Oaxaca right now. There is poverty and unrest, but the government has figured out a way to deal with it. It has amassed a vast collection of cans of paint in all the colors in the city, so when political graffiti appears, as it does every night, the city simply paints over it. Problem solved.
Sound familiar?
1 comment:
That's great timing you got the white wash. I linked to it in my blog. http://plavwriter.blogspot.com/2007/11/justice-for-our-dead.html
(Don't know how to make a link in the comment box here.) I look forward to more of your photography. Nice work.
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