Camera Lucida: The Colors of Life and Culture

On By Terri Webster SchrandtIn photography

I get to see amazing art work every day on the campus at which I teach. Lassen Hall, which houses the administration center on the Sacramento State University campus, sports this incredible mural, depicting the Aztec ruler, Montezuma.

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This mural, celebrating the culture of the Mexican people, was painted in October, 1978 by Ed Rivera, a long-time Sacramento resident.

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Lassen Hall with mural “Rebirth of La Cultura”

The 96-foot-wide by 24-foot-tall mural, which depicts the Mexican community’s American Indian-Spanish heritage, features major symbols of the Mexican culture, including an image of the Aztec ruler, Montezuma, an eagle with a serpent in its beak, the Aztec calendar and an ear of corn.

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Join Julia’s My Red Page for her weekly photography challenge, Camera Lucida. This week’s theme is “The colors of life.”

15 thoughts on “Camera Lucida: The Colors of Life and Culture”

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  8. What a beautiful mural! I would have expected to see it on the walls of San Diego State University, home of the “Aztecs”!

    I’m currently reading a wonderful novel, The Lacuna, which has Diego Rivera as a ancillary character… a truly remarkable muralist. We are so much richer as a nation to have the Mexican culture as an ingredient of our heritage melting pot.

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