A glimpse of Mexico City
Posted Thursday, February 16th, 2006 by k.see
Im finding tons of Graffiti in Mexico City, and im trying to take pictures of ALL of it. Of course I´m having an exetremly difficult time doing that, since it rivals Sao Paulo (usually), as the largest city in the world. With over 23 million people, theres a ton of writers and folks putting up all kinds of stuff. I haven´t found anything as unique and unifiying as pixação, a brasilian lettering style, although the layers of paint and paper is similiar to NYC, and super beautiful. There´s a buttload of freehand graf, etches, scratchies, and tags. A fair amount of stencils and stickers. Wheatpasted posters and paper are what I´m finding the least of. I hope to post a whole bunch more later in my travels, and talk of some art collectives that make ¨spectaculos urbanos,¨ billboard alterations! and write about the bad ass projects that folks have been sustaining here, so keep an eye out!
The stencil in the third photo translates into ¨There are many things that don´t change, and the heart is one of them…¨
If you are an artist in Mexico, wanna meet up or have any advice, shoot me an email at:
visual.resistance(at)gmail.com
March 22nd, 2006 at 6:56 pm
Hey, good pics from Mexico city. I was surprised as well to find lots of street art lately. It´s growing pretty fast and it´s getting better. It´s a huge city and sometimes not to safe to be carrying a camera around but still worth it.
May 4th, 2006 at 12:55 pm
Hey, this stuff is amazing man, get pictures of as much as you can!
September 7th, 2006 at 7:39 pm
hey this is almos were i live (its amazong) Graffiti #1
November 30th, 2006 at 2:02 am
I was truly contemplating whether or not to follow SWOON where ever… well, he/she went. The picture of (obviously) SWOON’s work, the mermaid with the bones is probably one of the most beautiful piece I have seen. Whoever took this picture, I would like to see an enlargement of it, if you could. I love the picture.
January 8th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
tcc- if you send an email to visual.resistance at gmail.com i can try to dig one up.
April 6th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
so if somebody waNTS TO KNOW ABOUT REAL MEXICAN GRAFFITI SEND ME AND EMAIL, OR IF SOMEBODY WANTS TO COME MEXICO CITY. JUST TELL ME
April 6th, 2007 at 11:48 pm
VISIT
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