Iquitos, Peru
"COLORS speak all languages."
~ Joseph Addison
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| Iquitos, Peru |
Please note: Many of my pictures were taken from the tour bus windows, hence, a blurry look in some photos!
This wall was photographed near the airport in Iquitos! It wasn't clear to me what was being advertised ~ but I was drawn to the rich red color, the multiple layers of paint & the sections of paint that were slowly peeling away the message(s).
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| Lima, Peru |
Murals can educate! in Peru, everyone drinks bottled water or Inka Kola (brillant yellow soda in a bottle... tastes like cough syrup with a bubble-gum flavor). As I mentioned in another post, tap water is not safe to drink, hence, the number of people carrying water bottles. For a large city, it's unfortunate that Lima doesn't have an formalized recycling program for disposal of all these bottles. This mural (on the side of a youth hostel) was a social statement about the waste that contributes to the Lima trash problem.
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| Lima, Peru |
Although this mural was located in another part of town... perhaps one might consider this as the public attitude (closing their eyes) to the recycling of water bottles. Ha! just a thought? I don't know why or what statement the artist was hoping to portray...
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| Iquitos, Peru |
Murals also advertised what the buildings were used for. This mural denotes a preschool... check out the colorful fence that divides the school from the roadway. Disney-like characters are used to attract children's attention... similar to advertising in the US.
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| Cusco, Peru |
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| Iquitos, Peru |
Some murals provide whimsy & color to a brighten a neighborhood or corner of a village / town. One observation about Peru... this country loves COLOR!
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