The here and now... and what and why

Complacency is a trap. At least that’s what I was thinking when I up and left the comfort of a Yankee prep school gig, where I taught music, amongst other things, for 28 years. There was also that life long career as a composer, musician and artist.

First, it was a year in St. Thomas, USVI, working as a reporter and shooting photography and then, a year in San Agustin Etla, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Time passed.
More time passed and a year back in the Athens of America followed by a hasty return to Oaxaca where it is all happening.
A couple of years in San Sebastian Etla and now, just down the road in San Pablo Etla. Life is good.

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Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo
The view from Corazon del Pueblo

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Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
Musician, photographer, videographer, reporter, ex-officio teacher, now attempting to be a world traveler

Thursday, February 8, 2018

Street art - Sweet art

 The murals, posters and paintings, the street art, is ever-changing, and so much fun with which to try and keep current.
Oaxaca has a varied and vibrant world of art, not only the wide variety of folk art, but the contemporary art scene is very well established with many famous and yet to be famous artists working in every medium imaginable.  The graffiti artists are quite renown and it's easy to see why.
 
There are galleries all over the city filled with art, but one can see great things just walking around doing errands.  Pretty sweet, eh?  Well some of it is not so sweet, much more bittersweet and important.
"For the mothers who cry over the empty graves of children never to return."

2 comments:

Bev in ct said...

I LOVE the first mural "creative artist workshop"
Is it in Oaxaca City. I'd love to see it when we come down for Samana Santa in a few weeks

Christopher Stowens said...

It's on Porfirio Diaz just up from Gourmand deli.