Oaxaca Street Art
A few years ago, leftist students in the south-western Mexican city of Oaxaca seized their city center, set up barricades, called for revolution and bombed a McDonald's. Even before that conflagration, the city hosted a thriving street art culture, but the events of 2006 help to add a layer of political urgency to the work's ongoing presence. Well, maybe not to the cupid heart with testicles you will see below, but it's difficult to ignore the influence of revolutionary slogans with politicians and freedom fighter grafted onto the sun-baked stone walls.
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Photos by Jeremy Krinsley and Karen Aragon
Posted on September 11, 2008
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These are fantastic. Espacio Para Grafiti!
— Nate on September 13, 2008
A bleeding heart with hairy balls is my new personal logo.
— flakeycakey on September 12, 2008
Very, very cool. Thanks for documenting this.
— Igor on September 12, 2008