Moving on down the line: The next mural I want to present for the CCC Street-Art Contest is right next to last week's one. It's the same wall of the Cultural Center of the UAM University, located on the corner of Gob. José María Tornel and Gral Pedro Antonio de los Santos, in the San Miguel Chapultepec neighborhood of Mexico City.
The progression takes us back from rebirth, in form of the plant with a human face, through death, symbolized by the skull, to old age, the part of the mural I would like to focus on today.
In this image we can see an elderly lady, clutching on to a giant heart. Now my immediate first thought was the importance of love, and matters of the heart, which turn out to be the most important things in life, which many of us don't realize until they are old. My next interpretation were cardiovascular diseases, which is the number one factor cutting short an otherwise pleasant old age, at least in the developed world. However, at a closer look you may notice that what could be mistaken as a heart, is in fact a giant fruit of the nopal cactus, also known as "prickly pear". Those things tend to be covered in tiny spines too, by the way, so one may not want to hold it so closely.
In the two bottom corners of the mural the artists left their names, tags, signatures. I highlighted them here, so you can look them up for yourself, maybe you can find their online presences.
If you liked this, click on any of the thumbnails to see my previous Mexican Murals posts:
