¡fuckyeahGuadalupe!

tiltshiftgen app applied to Guadalupe, Piedras, El Paso.

guadalupe tiled mural (by chacal la chaise)

taken with a holga. this was one of the first pictures taken with it. behind where i stand is the schuster parking lot for utep. supposedly, utep will begin construction in october, of a new parking garage for this side of campus.

fuckyeahmexico:

Virgen de Guadalupe @Notre Dame

Submitted by completo

cristinalovesthis:

“Last Supper of Chicano Heroes” by José Antonio Burciaga

(by Gil Jimenez)

London Lupe (by ☞ Infinitas Gracias)

A small shrine for the Virgin of Guadalupe outside the House of Guadalupe, a small Mexican shop at Camden Market in London.

Detail of Guadalupe mural (by chacal la chaise)

Lincoln Park mural project: I-10 Overpass at Reynolds exit.

betsey johnson (by little lungs)

if there’s anyone who can rock the guadalupe lucha libre style, it’s betsey johnson!

Pollydo, Pollydo, Polly do do do…

Wisconsin: La Crosse, Guadalupe Shrine (by chacal la chaise)

three years ago in our trusty 1997 volvo 870 outfitted with xmradio and pre-mixed  end-of-the-day perfect brandy manhattan cocktails, mj and i drove from el paso to stevens point, wisconsin, which was his parents’ hometown. sounds strange, but after all this time, going there was a first for me.

but, you may ask why ‘perfect’ brandy manhattans? because that’s what his parents would do—pour kids into motel pool, mix well, sit back with a drink in hand, and watch the sun set at the end of a 10 hour traveling day. while we had no kids with us, and no pools (who wants to dive into a swimming pool in liberal, kansas with eau de trail drive in the air?) we did have a good time.

anyway, after we left stevens point and headed back to texas, we noticed little signs near La Crosse, which advertised the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe. it took a while to locate the place, but it was well worth it. Unfortunately, we didn’t know the basillica was complete, so all my photos are of the area around the church, such as the candle chapel, surrounding gardens, and this beautiful sculpture.

This particular image was taken with an antique Zeiss Ikon bellows camera (left) with Kodak 120 Portra color film. The camera was a gift from an wonderful family friend for whom my father and I helped inventory her husband’s photographic equipment. She noticed I liked the little folder and insisted I take it as a gift; she would rather the camera be used than discarded or sold.

According to a crew of graffiti artists I spoke to at Remedios, a business in Kern Place that once allowed wild style urban art paintings on their walls, they named this version of Mario Colin’s Guadalupe, “The Eyes”. Mario allowed me to photograph him as he painted this striking image, which looked upon I-10 and Juarez. However, for reasons known only to Holy Family parish, the Guadalupe was erased to allow the construction of a new side entrance to its hall.

South Ochoa :: Frankie’s Grocery (by chacal la chaise)

Francisco Aquino, a well-known graffiti painter who has turned to legal painting and goes by the name Twick One, says StreetSmARTS has helped draw a more defined line between vandals and artists in the street-art community. Many graffiti vandals are teenagers and prefer to mark up buildings illegally, he says, while older, more-established street artists view graffiti as art and want to persuade the younger artists to join their ranks and create legal murals.

La Virgen Limited Edition Gocco Serigraph by MisNopalesArt on Etsy

(first, muchisimas gracias to michaela @ http://www.therichgirlsareweeping.com. she sent me the pointer to the serigraph.)

an interesting aspect to this artistic interpretation is how the artist chose not to follow what the Smithsonian deems as the “strict Catholic convention for depicting the image” in their collection, “¡Del Corazón! / Latino Voices in American Art.”Such a convention, the article explains, would show “the Virgin, her hands in prayer, on a crescent moon supported by an angel within a radiating mandorla (almond-shaped halo or aura surrounding the head of a holy figure).” 

Further research on the transformation of an Aztec goddess to “Mother of the Americas” is described in Jacques Lafaye’s Quetzalcoatl and Guadalupe: The Formation of Mexican National Consciousness (1974). In it, Lafaye explains the various goddesses, motifs, their significance to the Aztec culture, as well as explanations about the colors and various aspects of her garb and what the moon and angel mean.

Federico Archuleta was born and raised in the bordertown of El Paso, Texas, with Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on the other side of the Rio Grande. Like siamese twins, these cities are joined by bridges that hustle humanity, commerce, and contraband to and fro between the north and south. (via Graffiti Western)