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

Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Color scheme?

Unlike places like New England where all the houses are gray, white or brown, the color palette here in Oaxaca is pretty much anything goes.  So when I saw this on the Alcala, I wondered if it was some new artistic treatment, because it looked kinda cool.
Well, it all became clearer today
I wonder if the turquoise will stay.  It goes with the pink doncha think?
Stay tuned...
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2 comments:

Clever Monkey said...

My bet is that the turquoise will go, but it is kinda nice.

In March 2013 I spent a week in Mérida, but had never gotten around to putting my photos up on Flickr. When I did so earlier this year, I wanted to put captions with the locations of the many colorful buildings I'd photographed. I remembered where I took them but not the names of the streets, so I spent some time walking about in Google Street View. I had no trouble finding the buildings again, but what really surprised me was that well over half had not only been repainted, but painted in an entirely different color scheme. And these were buildings that were already well maintained back in 2013, not a case of a shabby building being freshened.

Diane

August 22, 2019 at 7:09 PM
Christopher Stowens said...

Repainting is very common here. Maybe it's the ease of painting smooth cement walls or the intensity of weather conditions (the sun) or just the desire to change how things look, but it's an everyday sight... and always fun to see.

And then there is covering up the graffiti... and the occasional earthquake damage.

August 23, 2019 at 9:02 AM

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