Saturday I went on an adventure in Tijuana visiting murals by the artist Panca. This tour was hosted by the tour company tourista libre!
Our first stop was the the central bus station. She described the feeling of this work as being "Spat out into the world in an unknown place"
Here's some of the other artists murals on the bus station wall.
The next stop was a mural painted on the wall of a musician friend's house. She said he is moving soon so this mural won't be here for too much longer
It was painted in 2012- which was a political year because of the elections going on and people selling their votes. The translation is "A real change comes from within."
Steve being grumpy
Our bus about to take us to go get tacos! Did I mention the cooler on the bus full of ice cold Tecates and Mexican coca colas?
We went to Tacos los paisas, a taco shop once visited by Anthony Bourdain.
Some adobada tacos
The next mural was right by the border on the outside of a tattoo/screen printing shop.
On our next stop we walked through the oldest park in Tijuana. Across the street from the park is an apartment building from the 1940's where Panca lived for a while.
The building is now home to a community of young Tijuana writers and artists. There's also murals inside the building, but no one was home to let us in.
The next mural was in an alley way near where all the mariachi musicians live.
From there we walked to a small brewery storefront located inside a covered alley way with other little art studios, cafés, used book and record stores.
The brewery is called Mamut- which means mammoth!
The last mural was finished just the day before we got to see it! It's located on the border wall near the casa del tunel art gallery. The building once housed the entrance to an underground tunnel that crossed into the US.
The gallery had some art by other artists outside. Here are some other artworks at the gallery:
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