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  • Ayotzinapa Mexico | Día de los Muertos

    Poem for Culiacán

    ByMark Vallen October 19, 2019

    Set afire & ravaged by drug lords Culiacán, the eden with three rivers burns through the night the Guadalupe watches from La Lomita, her sanctuary church it has the best view of the dying city The same giant white SUVs blue skies, cactus, palm trees the same brown-skinned people sinners, saints, criminals, victims Los Angeles or Culiacán what’s the difference?…

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  • Chicanarte-Chicano art | Día de los Muertos

    Tlaloque: A Day of the Dead Monoprint

    ByMark Vallen October 18, 2015April 15, 2023

    To mark the devasting drought of California (my home state), and to observe Día de los Muertos 2015, I have created an extremely limited edition suite of six monoprints. The prints recall the Tlaloque, underlings of Tlaloc, the ancient Aztec god of rain and celestial waters. You may consider my print a supplication for divine rain and an end to…

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  • Ayotzinapa Mexico | Día de los Muertos | Hollywood Dream Machine

    007: The Spectre of Ayotzinapa

    ByMark Vallen September 15, 2015January 3, 2023

    Four minutes of dazzling footage comprises the eye-popping, jaw dropping opening sequence of Spectre, the latest James Bond film. In the first scene, James Bond (played by actor Daniel Craig), is seen walking through a Día de los Muertos procession in Mexico City wearing a skull mask. He sports a Top Hat as befitting a bourgeois Mexican gentleman of the…

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  • Ayotzinapa Mexico | Chicanarte-Chicano art | Día de los Muertos | Prints - Posters

    Dia de los Muertos – Monoprints

    ByMark Vallen November 1, 2014October 18, 2015

    To mark the 2014 observance of Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), I have created a suite of twenty monoprints based upon an ancient Aztec glyph representing death. Essentially a printed painting, no two images are alike. The images were painted directly on a sheet of glass in oil paint, and burnished with a wooden spoon; each color…

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  • Chicanarte-Chicano art | Día de los Muertos

    Feliz Dia de los Muertos

    ByMark Vallen October 23, 2011January 16, 2023

    I took the following photos at the 12th annual Dia de los Muertos-Day of the Dead festival at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, October 22, 2011. The cemetery, founded in 1889, is the only one in the United States that opens its gates to the public for traditional observances of Dia de los Muertos. Upwards of 10,000 people attended what is probably…

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