Mexican Murals - Infantile Mysteries in Molinos [CCC's Street Art C...

For this week's CCC Street-Art Contest #47 I want to submit a mural I found on the Av. del Rosal in the Molinos neighborhood of Mexico City's Benito Juarez district. It is not nearly as impressive as what a mural chaser in Mexico might be used to, but it is an interesting imagery to ponder and interpret.

What Exactly Is Going On Here?

So let's take a careful look at the wall painting: On the left end there is this guy, sitting among a bunch of trees. His right hand is holding some type of wheeled toy with s smiley on it, though I could not make out what exactly it could be. Right in front of him there is what looks like a Tom&Jerry-esque mouse-hole on the wall, with the word ACOPIO written above it. Acopio can be translated as accumulation or storage, which the small characters on the right side of the mural seem to want to use.

These three individuals look like a frog (whose color barely stands out from its background), a bunny (strangely small for a rabbit, but for a mouse it looks too rabbit like), and a centipede (who in turn looks enormous in comparison). Each one of them is carrying some things they may want to put into the storage hole: the frog has a square box, the rabbit a round pot or jar, and the centipede is balancing a bottle on its head, and an open can of fish on his tail.

Above the "accumulation hole" there some kind of tube leading up to the top part of the image, which is much harder to interpret. Are those party balloons? And what's in those boxes (if that's what they are)? We may never find out. Other than the logos of a number of companies and organizations, presumably sponsors of the image, there is no information whatsoever on the mural, including the name of the artist.

Things We Will Never Know

Other indicators, such as the presence of a kindergarten, or ... a wild guess: maybe a place to accumulate toys, or any other stuff, are also missing. These open-ended questions actually have a great fascination on me, so I ended up liking this image much more for it. Who knows, had it not been for this mystery, I may not even have taken a picture of it, let alone publish a post for the Street Art Contest. I know, the mural may not be first place material, but it's good to give others the chance to win too.