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Having begun the cross-frontier presentation last week in the
hardcore border town of Tijuana, Baja California, Flores and his
art crossed the border into the United States of America yesterday,
Tuesday 7 of February, imitating the plight and flight of millions
of Mexican males and their families in their search for a life less
poor.
With tremendous support by the Exterior
Relations Department of the Mexican government following their
promotion of Flores work in a multi-national tour across the whole
of Latin America throughout the last twelve months, Flores has been
given the chance to speak in the Mexican consulate in the heart
of the vice-ridden migratory metropolis and create semi-permanent
murals celebrating the choque (‘clash’) between the
Mexicanidad (‘Mexicanness’) this side of the border
and the way that same set of personality traits is perceived and
changed by influences north of that physical division.
Very soon the work of this artist will be available for more people
to see as part of a series of documentaries recently filmed and
currently being edited by director Albino Alvarez on behalf of the
Mexican government cultural channel, Canal
22, and leading Mexican cultural centre, Casa
Lamm.
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