When I was in Mexico City back in April, I was very inspired by their aesthetic for Graphic Design. I was also pleased to see how the Metro (subway) system in the city is a place used to display art, political posters...to an audience of over 1 million daily passengers, most of them working class Mexican citizens. While riding the metro, I saw art exhibits at key transfer stations, I saw fliers announcing the historic march in support of Lopez Obrador on 4/24 (which pulled over 1.2 million people) and posters such as this one against domestic violence. As a political poster artist, it is important for me to remind myself of ways to develop art that speaks to a mass base of people, so that my the art becomes something functional and not something to be purchased and sold. My posters don¹t belong in galleries, they belong in schools, in the streets. Art in this country is commodified and transformed into something for commercial consumption. Our role as artists is to use our art to transform and inform a radical consciousness and to move the people.
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