Hello mural fans! Today I have a long mural to show you, one with many parts and pieces, too long to put into one single picture. However, it is all related, as all of these images are themed Alice in Wonderland. I found it on the wall of the second section of Chapultepec Park in Mexico City, right where it borders on the Dolores Cemetery by the Ave Bosques just before it meets Ave Constituyentes.
Alice the Sprayer
On the left end of this mural we can see Alice, looking very much like the Disney cartoon version, holding a spray can next to some elaborate graffiti. To me this tag would look hardly impressive, if not for the fact that it was Alice herself who painted it, covering the ubiquitous watch and cards that are features of her Wonderland story. Much more interesting, I think, is the portray of the Mad Hatter, looking completely like his character made famous by Johnny Depp in the 2010 live action film. This part was created by muralist Oscar Fozil.
Mushrooms and Caterpillar
Moving on to the trippy aspect of Alice's story, or let's say the one most commonly referring to the blatantly hallucinogenic aspect of what seems like one giant trip of Lewis Carroll: the smoking caterpillar sitting on a mushroom. Once again we're back at the Disney cartoon, with one exception: He is not smoking a sheesha (or hooka?) but what looks like a cigarette. Never mind, at least the mushrooms look like they should have a nice effect.
Enter Robo-Rabbit
Right next to the caterpillar is a character that doesn't seem to follow either interpretation of Alice, at least from what I know. It's the white rabbit, all right, complete with his pocket watch, but he looks more like a giant robot! It's funny to imagine a robot so worried about being late! The artist behind this piece of the mural (and I assume the caterpillar as well) is Nia Fase.
Duchess, Queen of Hearts, and HBD!!!
The other two prominent characters from the story are (what I guess must be) the Duchess, wearing a white and blue dress, and the Queen of Hearts, of course in red. Both are much better looking than the story credits them, but what I got immediately excited about was the HBD sign in the Queen's crown, and the Duchess' scepter. Could it be that these talented muralists could be Hiveans as well?
I still have no definite answer to this. A careful look at the Duchess shows the initials of NIA once again, as well as a certain NATH, whom I could not identify for certain. As for the Queen, she was painted by Moonkeysp, a London based Mexican muralist. Still, I can't find an explication for the HBD...
This post, as my mural posts usually, are my entry to this week's CCC's Street Art Contest. To see more of my Mexican collection of murals, please visit my Mexican Murals series.