Pastel from Argentina and Jufe from Puerto Rico were recently in Miami where they collaborated in this new mural for the RAW Project in the Wynwood area.
Painted at the Jose de Diego Middle School the new mural depicts according to Pastel a grave wreath and represents “an exercise of gentrification of memory and local identity.”
Are the different immigrant communities in Miami losing their cultural identity through acculturation to the American way of life? whatever is the case, her a few shots by WorldJunkies of the mural.
Author: Fran
Founder and editor of Urbanite. Street Art lover who after the finishing her MA thesis on the Mexican and Norwegian muralist movement in the 1920-50s, developed a fascination for street art and graffiti that eventually led to collaborations with different art blogs, including the creation of this one.
