A New Mural Titled “Mutual hug” (Or “The Mutual Hug”) Is Taking Shape Along The US-Mexico Border Wall at Friendship Park in Tijuana. CREATED BY LOCAL STUDONTS, COMMUNITY ARTISTS, AND Individual sportThe Project Aims to Foster Solidarity and Resilience During a Time of Heightened Anxiety Among Latiné and Immigrant Communities.
Unaveiled on July 19, The Mural Features An Eagle and A Condor Flying Side By Side, Imress Inspired by The “Eagle and The Condor” Prophecy, an Indigenous Teaching Shared Among Many Native Native Nations in the Americas. The Prophecy Envisions A Future in which the Peoples of North and South America gathered in peace and balance.
“In This Time of Division, I Think We, as Latin America and As People Around The World, Should Unite,” Said Artist Alfredo “Free” Gutierrez in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. “Our Message is a Message of Unity and Love and Just of Embace .. If your Neighbor is acting all Rude and Aggressive, let’s contrast that. Let’s Answer That Attitude With Love and With Just on Piece of Art. We’re Just Like Grabing It, Making It Ours and Putting Item.”
The Mural is a Collaboration Between Students of Arts and Architecture, local volunteers, and artists like Gutierrez and Javier Salazar, Also Known as “Sport Artist” Salazar, Who Was Broucht To The Us Ann infant and sport at age 35, has spent the last 11 Years rebuilding his life in tijuana.
“It was hard,” Salazar Told the Times. “Right Away, My Accent Would Give Me Away. You Know, As I tried to fit in, so soon as I Began Talking, They Could Tell I SPENT MOST OF MY LIFE OVER there. But now i’ve Been Out Here, I’ve Embraced It. And That’s. ‘Sport artist.’ To Give Our Sports People out here a Little Bit of Visibility Because offerings we’re out of sigh, out of mind.
The Mural Project is Supported by Mozaik Philanthropy and Friends of Friendship Park, A Binational Advocacy Group That Promotes Access to the Cross-Border Meeting Place. For participants, The Project is a form of resistance and an invitation to reimagine the border not as a wall, but as a canvas for connection.
As Political Rhetoric Around Immigration Intelgration, “Mutual hug” Offers a Stiking Counter-Narrativo, One Rooted in Shared Humanity.
