[Leica] Friday Follies

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Excellent set!
Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 4:06 PM Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> Greetings to all.  As mentioned last week I stumbled upon a plethora of
> folk art at the dam end of the city lake.  Traditionally this is in East
> Austin which was heavily hispanic and somewhat African American.  In recent
> years it has heavily gentrified as musicians and artists could find
> inexpensive housing which led to younger adults to want to live next to the
> cool kids.  So it was a surprising to find this extensive collection and
> this is maybe 10% on what is essentially two walls and supports for high
> tension wires coming off the hydro electric plant.
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Austin+Signs/Azteca.jpg.html
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Austin+Signs/Aztec+Sun.jpg.html
>
> This one is representative of portraits honoring Tejanos who made a
> difference in citizens lives in the 60's:
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Austin+Signs/Raul+Salinas.jpg.html
>
> This is an older bit of art celebrating life in the home country:
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Austin+Signs/Respecto.jpg.html
>
> Then we find many murals of idealized life:
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Austin+Signs/idealized+scene.jpg.html
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Austin+Signs/idealized+suburbia.jpg.html
>
> Last, as we move away from the walls we find different art.  The first is a
> celebration of a child who died from cancer but the parents wanted to offer
> some hope.
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Austin+Signs/Winnie.jpg.html
>
> This last one is newer with the addition of a little bit of cultural
> appropriation.  Some of the recent protests reached this far from the
> downtown and the work on the left is understandable and not out of the
> spirit of tejano protest:
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Austin+Signs/Please.jpg.html
>
> So the appellation used is taken from one of the panels discussing how they
> felt about themselves.  As an outsider to the Anglo community of the
> sixties but American citizens they used this nomenclature to say they were
> full blown texans as well as chicano.  For our non US readers many
> residents of Texas consider themselves Texans first and foremost while
> admitting that they might be US citizens as well.  As an example it was
> only maybe 15 years ago that Texas allowed its power grid to be connected
> to the larger US grid.
>
> All the best until next time.
>
>
> --
> Don
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> Don
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