July 25 2010

The most fascinated illustrations at the Mexico City Museum involve the canals and waterways once dominant in Mexico City. How this city became the second most populated in the world – on a base considered mush – is still something that boggles my mind. None of this is forgotten in the hundreds of sketches and paintings outlining the flourishing of urbanism and the receding of Mexico City’s canals. Above, a portrait of a plaza with canals to the right. Now imagine the collages, video portraits, and audio slideshows that will provide history lessons for Chilangos in the next century. The talk will surely revolve around the non-existence of water.