Here are some more shots from the Mexico City Metro System,grainy, blurry and this time in colour.
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CDMX SUBWAY SERIES: BLACK AND WHITE
Me meti en un vagón del metro y no he podido salir de aqui (I jumped into a subway car and I haven´t been able to get off) So starts the song el metro by seminal Mexican rock group Cafe Tacuba. And often, yes, that is the way it feels, trapped, at the mercy of […]
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PLUMAS Y PEINES (PENS AND COMBS)
On weekdays I alight from the subway, the new day still in darkness and join the throng to ascend the stairs and listen to the female cry of 5 peso jellies for breakfast. Through the turnstiles and then I turn left, still groggy from too little sleep and pass churros being sugared, fruits high-powered liquefied, […]
Read moreStation / Estación # 148: Insurgentes Sur [Project Resumption]
I’ve been back in Mexico City a few days. It has seemed a bit strange at times,walking around the streets of the ‘centro histórico’ where I used to live, visiting old haunts – everything familiar but with subtle changes, in my perspective also. The faces of the taqueros (taco vendors) and viene-vienes (unofficial parking assistants/car minders) I recognise have slightly […]
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THE MCM PROJECT: WELCOME AND REVIEW / BIENVENIDOS Y REVISTA
WELCOME TO THE MEXICO CITY MEXICO PROJECT! ¡BIENVENIDOS AL MEXICO CITY METRO PROJECT! In whatever way and for whatever reason you have arrived here I hope you enjoy or find what you are looking for. Please read on to find out more about the MCM Project. I would love to hear your impressions. En […]
Read moreStation / Estación # 145: San Juan De Letran
Off at San Juan De Letran, rise to the surface and here I am – smack-bang in the kernel of the big corn of Latin America. Sheer, utter density of human traffic and stagnant mass clog the pavement, impeding the possibility and desire of an elongated rhythmic stride through the streets. It’s usually a stop, […]
Read moreMCM Project Adjunct: La Linea Dorada (The Golden Line)
As I mentioned not long ago the newest line (line 12) of the Mexico City metro system is not yet open. However, for the last 2 Sundays ‘familiarization rides’ have been run with access at a few different stations on the line. Last Sunday I decided to go along for the ride. What follows are […]
Read moreStation / Estación # 142: Bosque De Aragon
Hasta ahora ausente, el episodio final del cuarteto de estaciones Aragon ha llegado. La estación es paralela al parque expansivo que le da su nombre. Parece que los dias mejores del lugar ya han pasado. No tiene la apariencia elegante de su pariente real Bosque de Chapultepec. Sin embargo tiene su encanto derelicto. Me agaché a […]
Read moreStation / Estación # 141: Iztapalapa
Imagine ascending to the surface of alfresco metropolitanism, stepping into the environs of dynasties; indigenes, colonials, mestizos. Your blinking hastens in the contrasting lucidity, eyelid inverse shutter reveals rippled golden dunes and a temporary transportation takes place, a million miles – it may well be (yes and no)- to splendour of Saharan sands, sullied by […]
Read moreStation / Estación # 140: Azcapotzalco
‘No es suficiente ser diligente; así son las hormigas. ¿De qué eres diligente?’ HENRY DAVID THOREAU Hoy el sol, recientemente solitario ( portandose como un ermitaño cascarrabias) apareció de nuevo, brillando con intensidad suficiente para persuadir salir unos torrentes de transpiración a mi ceja mientras circunnavegaba (daba vueltas) alrededor de Azcapotzalco. Azcapotzalco significa ‘en los […]
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LATIN AMERICA FOCUS 