Skeletons on the wall Seems like Mexico again

    There is a lively street art scene in Cuenca. One can google Cuenca Street Art and find examples I haven’t met yet. At an intersection where traffic moves from the Rio Tomebamba into the Historical District there are two skeletons on an exterior wall of a building cavorting amid a glorious cactus patch. The scene is reminiscent of ” Day of the Dead ” in New Mexico, a yearly Mexican celebration that sees skeletons come out and remind people of their mortality.You can bet the person on the other side of the glass in that anthropology museum, in front of you, didn’t know they were going to be an object of display when they joined the spirit world. These two skeletons look full of life and the inscription above both reads ” Salud a la Vida. ”  On one end of the art work is the artist’s first name signature ,” Juli 2015. ” Just over the top of these skeleton’s grinning heads, in Plaza Otorongo below us, you can see a blown up Santa doll waving at street traffic and strolling tourists. In a weird way, celebrating Santa is as weird as celebrating skeletons. Fantasies and nightmares both come from deep places.           .