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 Traditions / Tradiciones

La Fiesta de San Juan - June 24 - a summer celebration.

La Fiesta de San Juan
La Fiesta de San Juan 2014
Read my full interpretation HERE.

Dia de los Muertos / Day of the Dead

Tango at El Tiradito
Tango at El Tiradito  2019
My playful interpretation. Read more HERE.
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The Fiesta Grande Street Fair

I had a blast providing the promotional art and graphics for the Fiesta Grande committee for a couple of years before this proud tradition was put on hiatus. I so look forward to its return one day! It was the best Chicano street fair in the Southwest, IMHO -- they had it goin' on. I donated all my posters and digital files to them for future use.  Andale!
Fiesta Grande Poster 2014
Fiesta Grande T-shirt Design 2015 (printed on a variety of colors)
Fiesta Grande T-shirt design 2015
Fiesta Grande Poster 2014
Fiesta Grande Street Fair Poster
Artist's tidbit - what I loved most about this project was rekindling old memories of living Lowrider Culture  in the L.A. Harbor area, 1960's-70:
​The now classic music. Cruising the strips on weekends. Chicano and Surfer car clubs showing off. (Yeah, there were plenty of white on brown gang fights.) Sneaking booze into community dances where bands like the fledgling El Chicano and Malo were playing... 

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La Corua-Baboquivari-Mts
*  La Corua  was a large water serpent that lived in springs of water and protected them. It had a cross on its forehead and cleaned the veins of water with its teeth.  According to Sonoran folk beliefs, if one killed the Corua, the spring would dry up.  Vanishing water sources and  economic pressures in Mexico have pushed the folktale of La Corua  to the dustbin of history on both sides of the border.

Serpents have long been sacred to indigenous peoples throughout the Americas and are respected as guardians of water sources and bringers of rain.

* Beliefs and Holy Places - A Spiritual Geography of the Pimeria Alta  -  James S. Griffith, University of Arizona Press, 1992
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