La Llorona’s Sacred Waters, mural in San Francisco - Juana Alicia“Because of the extreme situation o
La Llorona’s Sacred Waters, mural in San Francisco - Juana Alicia“Because of the extreme situation of the dangers to women and the planet around issues of water, I wanted to express my ideas in the mural in a way that would [have the most impact] graphically, with a limited palette — not a Kodachrome, Disney-entertainment sort of piece, that would distract you color-wise from the issues at hand,” Alicia tells SF Weekly in a phone interview from Mexico, where she now lives half the year when not in San Francisco. “I wanted to keep things a little more somber.” La Llorona’s Sacred Waters, which also features the pre-Aztec goddess of water and fertility called Chalchiuhtlicue, is still politically relevant since the water issues that Alicia pinpointed in 2004 are still an issue. Though Bolivian protests toppled the government’s plan with Bechtel to privatize the city’s water company, water rights and access to water are central concerns for many communities around the world. Alicia compares the protest theme in La Llorona’s Sacred Waters to Picasso’s famous 1937 anti-war work, Guernica — whose colors are also muted.” sfweekly.com -- source link
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