Happy Cinco de Mayo
Apparently, "wheelchair guy" in Mexico is more interesting than his relative to the north.
Image description: Two identical simply-stenciled images in bright red paint on a wall. The universal wheelchair access guy holds a gun (rifle, machine gun?) in an upraised hand as he sits inside a five-pointed star. Posted at Flickr by rsinghabout, the image is indexed under "San Cristobal," "Chiapas," "Mexico," "2007."
Image description: On the slope where a sidewalk ramps leads into a street in Mexico City, Mexico, a variation of universal wheelchair access guy is stenciled in black over yellow paint. This guy faces left instead of right and has a very large round head. Posted on Flickr by daquella manera.
Image description: On a large post painted green a round white stencil graffiti painting. The background of the image is white and the wheelchair guy is the color of the green post. He's a completely stylized version of the universal symbol, facing left. He has a very large oblong head with giant eyes, like an alien or maybe a Day of the Dead skeleton. He doesn't appear to have legs but his torso looks a little like ribs, though that may be a function of the illustration since the chair cushion, the chair's arm and the guy's body are all the same color green and each is cleverly articulated despite he drawing's simplicity. The manual chair looks light and speedy. Posted on Flickr by ultraclay!
6 comments:
The last one looks kinda like Timmy from South Park.
That's kinda funny. I thought that the first one looked like the guy was holding a trumpet up in a cheering gesture. It didn't occur to me that it might be a rifle.
JDspeeder1: Ooh, it does look a bit like Timmy.
Lisa Emrich: I would say that it could be a trumpet, except it is also supposedly a photo taken in Chiapas, where there has been much social unrest against the government. It fits perfectly with other street art and graffiti I have seen pictures of that does involve that social unrest.
Mexican politics aside, it's a pretty exciting image the way it takes such a universal symbol of "inability" and "helplessness" and gives it a firearm in a hand raised in solidarity.
It's also kind of exciting that wheelchairs have made it into graffiti. Graffiti, along with its culture of outlaw danger and adventure among the perpetrators, ultimately becomes everyday art for the "ordinary" person going about his or her day in every walk of life, not the fashionistas though they periodically try to appropriate it, and there are a lot of "ordinary" people in wheelchairs going about their days in every walk of life.
The logo in clay comes from the poster of a Spanish Film by Alex de la Iglesia Acci'on mutante
http://caperucitacoja.blogspot.com/
Sara: Exactly!
caperucita coja: Thanks for the info. I've put the movie at the top of my Netflix queue.
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