DAVID BOTELLO: READ BETWEEN THE LINES


   

Photo © Robin Dunitz

Date
1975

Location
4539 East Olympic Blvd. (mural on Ford Blvd.)
Sloan's Dry Cleaners, exterior

Media Notes
Acrylic on stucco, 10' x 20'

Description
A Chicano worker stands enslaved by modern technology while his family watches television, mesmerized by images of sex, violence, and patriotism. In the center, a young boy sits reading about Mexican history. Behind him the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl swoops down from the sun to encourage him.


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