On our first day in Oaxaca, we were startled to see hundreds of these near-life-size clay sculptures standing and reclining on a public street.
They are part of an exhibit, "2,501 Migrants" by sculptor Alejandro Santiago.
Santiago's hometown, Teococuilco, in La Sierra Norte, lost half its small population in recent years to migration to the U.S.
These figures represent those people who left.
Police and schoolkids lounge around the figures every day. The kids are not visiting the exhibition, they're hanging out regardless of what hunk of clay is watching.
The exhibition will eventually come to Central Park in New York.
2 comments:
Love it! Can't wait to see these migrants in NYC.
I like these photos, thanks a lot!
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