Alphabet Art

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Bello Amanecer Borincano
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DESIGNED BY PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS THROUGH A CITY-SPONSORED PUBLIC ARTS PROGRAM / 3 1984
In June, 1984 Carmen Pabon began the garden Bello Amancecer with the goal of providing a place 2
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for the elderly and children
in the neighborhood. Carmen works with a group of elderly people who plant flowers in addition to holding a weekly ministry,
providing food, clothing, and classes and workshops to the elderly, and feeding the homeless three times a week.
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HOUSTON
The mural portrayed two Puerto Rican children holding hands looking toward the future, while painted behind them in ocean blue
was “Fuerzas Irresistible,” a poem by Jose de Diego, a Puerto Rican Nationalist poet. To the right of the poem, projected in
relief from the wall, was brightly painted sun, with a face that is modeled on a traditional Puerto Rican carnival mask. Framing
the poem were symbols of the immigrant experience, such as a certificate of naturalization, and these are painted so that they
fade into the brown-gray of the wall, conveying an impression of fading memory.
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