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  Popotla - The Wall: Mosaic Of Found Objects Representing Waves

  title Popotla - The Wall: Mosaic Of Found Objects Representing Waves 

  description For their InSITE97 Community Engagement project, artist collective RevolucionArte (RevArte) worked with local children and residents of the fishing village Popotla to create murals constructed of found materials to soften and embellish the concrete walls surrounding their community. Popotla had recently been subjected to the development of numerous modern buildings and projects, including the kilometer-long concrete wall constructed for 20th Century Fox's production set for the film Titanic. It was on this wall that the murals were created, giving the residents a sense of ownership over their village and its landscape. "Popotla - The Wall/Popotla - El muro," was created over the course of four months, but even after the exhibition was over the community continued to add to the murals. --inSITE97  Popotla, Rosarito, Baja California Norte, Mexico  Sculpture and Installations  Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)  This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 04, Item 295)  [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. 

  artist/creator Fluker, Jimmy  Revolucionarte 

  subject Walls  Humor  Color  Boundaries  Mosaics (Visual Works)  Public Art  Sculpture (Visual Work)  Children (People By Age Group)  Assemblage (Sculpture Technique)  Mexican-American Border Region  Wave Pattern  Murals (Any Medium)  Insite97 

  contributor Calisphere