art + inspiration

Mexico City Edition

Hello! Or should I write, Hola!? Just back from a trip to Mexico City, where I’ve always wanted to visit. What a vibrant, vital, colorful, historic and art-filled metropolis. My favorite activity was simply stepping out the door and taking a walk in any direction. Talk about art + inspiration…Here’s a sampling of pics. Enjoy!

So much street art—this was a fave. Combo of wheat-paste and graffiti with a street altar set before it.

A few of the fanciful facades of Roma Norte, the neighborhood where we were staying. Kind of like the Williamsburg of CDMX.

Great mural in Frida’s old neighborhood.

This lovely little tree grows in the yard of Leon Trotsky’s home, located about five minutes away from Frida’s house. Convenient for assignations.

In the garden of Casa Azul. Man, that blue does not quit.

A real highlight of the trip was Casa Luis Barragan, home of the great Mexican architect. Left as he lived in it — and one of the most beautiful spaces I’ve ever visited. This is one of the patios.

The Palace of Fine Arts, filled with so many extraordinary murals, including Diego’s replica of the one Rockefeller Center destroyed.

CW with one of the pooches we took care of on or visit. Everything’s better with pooches.

Gosh, it’s good to get away. Perspective, appreciation, reawakening of the senses, that beautiful shifting of time that happens when we leave our day-to-day. Until next week, Chris