"Rostro Y Dignidad / Face and Dignity" Oaxaca, Mexico, 2008

I painted this mural while living in Oaxaca, Mexico. It's at a safehouse called Casa Del Buen Samaritano (run by a Oaxacan organization called COMI) for Central American migrants who are traveling North to the US or Mexico City. It's largely an illustration of the organization's slogan: "The migrant is not a statistic, they have a face and dignity."

The images I chose to include on the mural are largely from stories that the migrants told me, about their hopes for the future, frustrations with the inequalities of global economics, and the hardships they've faced on their travels and as migrants living in the US and Mexico.

The faces on the right are of migrants who have stayed in the house, and the hands above were traced from migrants who stayed at the house during my 3 weeks working there, as well as volunteers and associates of the organization.

LINKS:

CASA Collective/CASA Chapulín: A collective i volunteered with while living in Oaxaca that does international solidarity work.

COMI (Centro de Orientación del Migrante de Oaxaca, A.C.): A non-profit organization in Oaxaca that runs the Casa Del Buen Samaritano migrant safehouse.

Mural by Tim Gibbon: Rostro Y Dignidad, Face and Dignity. Painted in Oaxaca, Mexico at Casa del Buen Samaritano migrant safehouse, COMI (Centro Oaxaqueño del Migrante). Migration: Mexico, Central America, US. Community murals, silkscreen posters, silkscreen clothing, silkscreen t-shirts! Artist, activist, teacher, educator! Washington DC! Dynamite Printworks! Graphic design, fonts, painting, drawing, street art. Oberlin College. Tim Gibbon!