Camino de Recuerdos (Memory Lane), Los Palos Grandes - Caracas
Last weekend I was running some errands in the neighborhood Los Palos Grandes when I saw a mural on one of its busiest streets that I had never seen before. A realistic drawing of what looked like a street in the Caracas of yesteryear with the Avila in the background.
I went around the block to go back to the place, and I got out of the car to take some pictures.
The author of the mural name is Simon De Santis. And when I got home, I wanted to look for more information, of course.
On one side of the mural, there is a text of a writer named Elsy Manzanares that evokes memories of what Caracas and that particular sector with its dirt streets used to be like. It is very close to the foothills of the mountains and in the old days was not in the central part of the city. They were lands where there were some haciendas.
The mural, as I said at the beginning, is on one of the busiest streets in the neighborhood of Los Palos Grandes, 3era Transversal (3rd Street).
On a small side wall of the shop closest to where the mural is located, there is another drawing of a macaw by the same artist, Simon De Santis.
I love the mural. The drawing is very well done with a lot of detail. However, with a bit of fantasy, because in that old Caracas, there weren't macaws. The thousands of macaws that now fly daily over the sky of Caracas are relatively new inhabitants of the city. But I think that is a subject for another post.
This is my entry for this week's CCC's Street Art Contest #88.
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April 20, 2022