Voices from the Northside Neighborhoods

Artist

Mario Miguel Echevarria

Year

2017

Location

SE Corner of Buckingham Park

Description

This mural depicts houses from three neighborhoods: Alta Vista, Andersonville, and Buckingham. Each side is dedicated to a neighborhood. The South Face represents Buckingham, with a German Russian Bride struggling to have a "normal" childhood, Ingleside Quarry worker, lime for sugar beet industry, and stoop laborer/beet worker with baby in the field. Another German Russian woman with skirt and beggar scarf in the early 1900's. The East Face represents Andersonville, "Hochzeit" wedding invitees with a bone cane tied with ribbons (sign of accepted invitation) and the rewards of an education lighten the burden. Difficult to achieve, success, fulfilled, freedom, the only figure smiling and not shouldering a burden strenuously. The North Face represents Alta Vista. Quetzalcoatl equals potential teen pregnancy, self image, sacrifice of dreams, a soldier returned from conflict 1940/50's uniform and smashed sign, and Betabelero (beet workers). The fourth side depicts the original purpose of the neighborhoods: a place for migrants to live and work.

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