Mexican Murals - Simple Art Beyond Periferico [CCC's Street Art Con...

Not far from where I live, there is a huge multi-lane, multi-story superhighway running through the city, called Periferico. Unlike its name would suggest, it's still far from the periphery of Mexico City, so the dense urban sprawl continues on the other side of it. It is an unsuspecting neighborhood, a bit removed from both the touristy Condesa and Chapultepec, and the street markets and public transport hub of Tacubaya. Instead, it's a residential lower-middle class neighborhood, where no one ever goes if they don't know someone who lives there... unless they are hunting for murals.

A Simpler Style

Even the murals here are a bit different. Instead of the highly artistic, and maybe even symbolically weird wall paintings, what I found here was a pleasant, natural scene. It's something many people in the city dream about: a location in a lush forest, where the river offers a beautiful site to refresh oneself on a hot day.

This kind of river scene is actually not all that uncommon in many parts of Mexico that are not urbanized like its crowded capital. So I can even see why people who have moved here from the country might want to decorate their walls with this. Mainly for this reason, I'd like to share it here as well.

As it's often the case, there is no mention of the artist anywhere, though the small Miguel Hidalgo logo on the right indicates that the district may have sponsored the paint. As always, this post is my submission to the weekly Street Art Contest by CCC, which celebrates it's 50th edition. (And once again I'm running late in my submission, hoping I won't run out of time...)