As I mentioned in my last post, I was walking around my Centro Historico neighborhood in Mexico City after picking up some early morning coffee. Since it was relatively early, a lot of the local storefront businesses weren’t open yet, and therefore had their security gates still down from the night. From what I was seeing, most of them had murals painted on them, which was pretty cool. It’s like a gallery of mural art in the streets of the historic center in CDMX.
The mural above, with the cowboy and western landscape, may have just been an artistic image, but many of the murals I saw were advertisements for the business that was located there. For example, these two murals below are on the “Sandy Dresses” (in Spanish, “Casa Sandy Vestidos de XV años”) store at República de Chile 21 A Y B. I like the murals, but I really like the funky patterns on the building above the storefront security gates.
Here’s another mural specific to the location, this one is for an optician’s business, Optica Santiago MX. I love this one, which has a somewhat surrealist feel to it. Of course it just depicts a person’s face behind a phoropter, which is the tool used by opticians to determine eyeglass prescriptions, as well as if you have vision issues like nearsightedness, farsightedness, or astigmatism.
