Left Upper Side On The Weist

snowflakes on the roofs of Mexico

who spends four months in Mexico, has an opportunity to know them: The "Queen of Mexico" even Virgen de Guadalupe or Virgin Guadalupe called. Instead of good in her to stay in honor basilica respectively, the dark-skinned Virgin Mary in the urban jungle and is omnipresent in her sun dress; between parked cars, stalls, electric lines, street signs, advertising on buses and taxis, on t-shirts, calendars and tattoos.

"My" Virgen de Guadlupe, the "Reina de México"


"Virgen de Guadalupe, Simone Vienna 2009, oil on cardboard, 50 x 60 cm

Stylistically, there are no limits to their presentation, ranging from folk art (arte popular), which has no perspective, to more than kitsch, comics through to graffiti in Chicanostil. The Miraculous showing yourself in the company of various saints and does not hesitate to front, are shown together with the "saints" of the drug mafia, Jesús Valverde.

so pulled the Guadalupe also in our lives. First, an arm bath for the children, then one for myself, keychains for the grandmother, T-Shirt for the loved ones. But I knew it would need after our return to Spain a holy shrine and began immediately to prepare him for: the maiden in the first petate, a traditional sleeping mat of the common people, and later to paint on cardboard. Preferred place: on the roof terraces of each property. - Created "Viva la Virgen!"

Here my first Virgen de Guadalupe on the roof in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico



Here's a Youtube contribution to the Virgen de Guadalupe (from "prinele)





And another to the original image in the Basilica of Mexico City (from "rafael mexico)






More information about the Virgen de Guadalupe
http://www.mexiko-lexikon.de/mexiko/index.php?title=Codex_Guadalupana
http://www.mexiko-lexikon.de/mexiko/index.php?title=Virgen_de_Guadalupe