04-12 – Imagenes Urbanas: A Study in Street Abstraction

Don Bergland
University of Victoria

Like all Mexican towns, Bucerias, Nayarit, is a repository of Urban Abstract Imagery. It is there to be found, right beneath your very feet. Just walk around the town. But remember to keep your head down, right down. Keep your eyes fastened to the aesthetic interstices of sidewalk and wall. Don’t take your gaze off that mystical passageway for a second. Focus your sight on the combinations of colors, the interfacing of textures, and the composition of line, light, shadow, and shape. Every single step along a sidewalk in Mexico brings you a new universe of abstract imagery. Just keep walking. Just keep your eyes in that cosmic groove.

 

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