Female face flows like sand through an hourglass. Beautiful street art on a utility box on Cesar E. Chavez Parkway in Barrio Logan.
Every so often I drive up Cesar E. Chavez Parkway through Barrio Logan. Recently I noticed that there’s a bunch of new street art decorating electrical boxes at intervals along both sidewalks. So last Sunday I took a walk through the neighborhood to check it out.
The photos of street art on walls, doors and windows you see were taken on Main Street just north of Cesar E. Chavez Parkway. The many electrical boxes were observed along the parkway between Main Street and National Avenue.
As I took those final two photos of the painted dogs Princess and Chato, I was startled by a nearby voice. A gentlemen at the nearby house greeted me from over his fence. I learned many of the boxes along the street were painted by various local artists about a month and a half ago. He was pleased that his neighborhood is getting “cleaned up” and graffiti has made way to all the colorful artwork.
I was also surprised to learn Princess and Chato were actual living dogs! As we spoke, a woman came out of the house proudly holding the two dogs! After I departed, I regretted not asking whether I could take photos of their pets. As you can see, Princess and Chato’s street art portraits are very true-to-life!
Street art fuses a human face with elements from the Mexican flag’s coat of arms.A pink flamingo painted by a blue door on Main Street in Barrio Logan.Glashaus remains painted on a shipping container long after the nearby art studios were vacated.Shark painted on wall by Ol’ Fashioned Lumber.Happy sun painted on a long colorful wall at Perkins Elementary School.A very flowery Frida Kahlo, painted on a door at The iN Gallery.Tree-like art on a screen door at 1878 Main Street.Cool art enlivens a nearby window.Cesar Chavez art in Barrio Logan on the street that bears his name. His words concerning courage and the non-violent struggle for justice live on.Huelga in Spanish means strike.Symbols fill one side of an electrical box. You are in Chicano Park.Fun street art on another side of the electrical box on Cesar E. Chavez Parkway includes a face.Another side. Two birds, a red flower, the moon and sun.A poem. Flores para los Muertos – Flores de los Enamorados… Flowers for the Dead – Flowers of the Lovers…Stunning street art in Barrio Logan abundant with ancient symbolism.A painted calavera among flowers, topped with a hat-like gramophone.A Mexican ballet folklórico dancer, with a skirt made of a red rose.One box depicts the mythological Aztec story Quetzalcoatl escapes from Migtlan (a part of the underworld).Mictlantecuhtli, god of the dead and the king of Mictlan, and his wife Mictecacihuatl seem upset that Quetzalcóatl escaped!One box seems to be a work in progress, with a yellow skull and empty white oval.Colorful prickly pears decorate one utility box.Another side.Among many symbols and motifs in the Barrio Logan street art, I spy the logo of the San Diego Padres!A corner of one otherwise bare box.RAZA with colorful, dynamic imagery.Chicano Rocks–looks sort of like an Aztec version of the rock band KISS.Legendary musician Santana has a third eye.Amazing street art in Barrio Logan. Painting of a face decorated for Día de Muertos, or Day of the Dead.Boy carries earthen jug. Agua es vida. Water is life.Happy dog street art, with tongue hanging out.Another side of the same box–another happy dog.Aztec god of the night and conflict, jaguar Tezcatlipoca.Scorpion street art in Barrio Logan.Dog’s head street art.Street art of Princess, an actual dog who lives at a nearby house!And this is Chato, a second dog who lives at the same house!
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