So with an exhibition unlikely to manifest anytime soon I've decided to do an online exhibit of my works from my last show in Mexico, that I was going to call 'Hecho en Mexico' when I got around to showing it in Melbourne. Instead I'm publishing this mainky for my community on facebook, and if anyone wants to purchase a piece, get in touch and I'll figure out a sanitary way to deliver it, I believe my prices are up to $200AUD. I also thought it's a good opportunity to actually speak about my life in Guadalajara (GDL) mexico. A great life. I basically took long walks, observed and drew. This piece is set in a fountain in Centro, downtown in Plaza Universidad. Probaboy the biggest drawcard in the plaza is a Burger King, that I frequented, but it's next to this great library Alejandra and I went to on a date and lots of peopke congregate there. It's just a block from the Cathedral. People like contrast in art, and I as an artist, love contrast. Mexico doesn't have great social security, and there's lots of homeless, but they are I guess common enough to be an accepted part of the community, and well practiced at being homeless. I saw this guy washing his feet in the public fountain and it kind of spoke to me about Jesus, I liked how he was dignified somehow in this really humble action of self care. Though no doubt there would be indignent mothers yelling at their kids for drinking from the fountains. At the same time, you get all these wonderful mamacitas indignant over no doubt some trivial matter in the way young people do. What I like most is that life was not as hermetically sealed as it is in Melbourne, empathizing is easier because you are constantly exposed to peopke living really different lives. GDL has bubbles of course, but those were the least interesting places. I could say far m9re, but maybe instagram has a word limit... #watercolor #art #ink #brush #illustration #exhibition #gdl #guadalajara #mujeres #mujeresdemexico #homeless #mamacita #dirtyfeet #fountain #jeans #glorioushair #dignity #indignity #mexico #onlineexhibition #wordlimit #hamberders #parklife #indiaink #kangagringo https://www.instagram.com/p/B-GjVToHaJp/?igshid=1d9mg96yrnio1