My time tends to get filled up super quickly these days, so I am not even trying to go scouting out new murals. However, sometimes it all happens the other way, and the murals come to. Quite literally. Just the other day I noticed a brand new painting on a wall right around where I live. So of course I took a pic, and I'm happy to use it as my entry post for this week's CCC Street Art Contest.

What at first appears to be a bunch of colorful abstractions, turn out to be a stylized lettering at closer look. What could it be? The bones sure look like an X, and the C and N are also obvious letters. And the rest? Well, if the triangle is an A, and the ear of corn in I, then we can pretty much guess the rest: MEXICAN@, where the final @ could be either seen as an A or and O. This is a typical way in Spanish to make an adjective gender neutral.

The rest of the image features a sun and a moon, as well as those swirly clouds above the lettering, symbols in pre-colombian writing symbolizing speech. As for the artist, his tag is clearly visible in the top right-hand corner. But before I attempt posting a link, you may want to decipher it for yourselves. It took me long enough to recognize the main word in the image.

If you liked this, click on any of the thumbnails to see my previous Mexican Murals posts: