Springtime Mood

(From Sun Gazing)

THE CURRENT CHALLENGE

Fri Mar 15, 2013

This week's challenge:
'Springtime'.

Dedicated to Sophia!
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Sticks

Woman with sticks. Sculpture by Ron Mueck

Ron Mueck exhibition at Mexico City’s ‘Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso‘ which offered very different insights into the mind of a unique contemporary artist.

Mueck is an Australian sculptor specialising in hyperrealism. The exhibition in Mexico City was ‘Hiperrealismo de Alto Impacto’ (High Impact Hyperrealism).

Mueck takes human and animalistic forms in all their fragility, strength and emotions and either amplifies or diminishes the size to provoke an intensified reaction.

"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."

– Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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Street Ornate Flowers II

"I hear: I forget / I see: I remember / I do: I understand."

– Chinese Proverb

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Street Ornate Flowers

"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."

– Frank Zappa

Link to Lisa's Chaos

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Tlalpan

Tlalpan. Mexico City

Tlalpan is one of the sixteen administrative boroughs of Mexico City. It is the largest borough, with over eighty percent under conservation as forest and other ecologically sensitive area. The rest, almost all of it on the northern edge, has been urban since the mid-20th century. When it was created in 1928, it was named after the most important settlement of the area, Tlalpan, which is referred to as “Tlalpan center” (Tlalpan centro) to distinguish it from the borough. This center, despite being in the urbanized zone, still retains much of its provincial atmosphere with colonial era mansions and cobblestone streets. Much of the borough’s importance stems from its forested conservation areas, as it functions to provide oxygen to the Valley of Mexico and serves for aquifer recharge. 

The borough is home to one of the oldest Mesoamerican sites in the valley, Cuicuilco, as well as several major parks and ecological reserves. It is also home to a number of semi-independent “pueblos” that have limited self-rule rights under a legal provision known as “usos y costumbres” (lit. uses and customs). [Wiki]

"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."

– Naguib Mahfouz

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