Long Gone Art
The image itself, I spotted it long before I moved to San Antonio’s south side1, which strictly speaking was more akin to baha King William instead of truly South Side, but culturally, it worked.
That move snapped me out of the Austin reverie, and makes the Austin that is no longer here that much more apparent.
That image was an artistically rendered painting of the the familiar icon of the Virgen de Guadalupe, which, dig back into the mythology, was some kind of a physical embodiment of a local goddess, or minor deity that was also flesh and blood. Figures, no male bashing, but yeah, no guy was strong enough to take it.
Long Gone Art
The singular artwork, it lived on South Flores Street, facing the street, next to the Design-A-Print2 storefront. Gutted, paved over, remodeled, a number of different avenues, and change. Much change. However, like I’ve suggested about San Antonio, more so than any other place I’ve lived, the governments3 change4, but the land — and its people — remain the same.
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- Virgen de Guadalupe. Old “Baha King William” district. ↩
- Desgin-A-Print. Also here. ↩
- Bexar under nine governments. ↩
- The historical marker. ↩