Great Mosaic Wall of Zacatlán — Update

Great Mosa­ic Wall of Zacat­lan, Mex­i­co
by George W. Olney

The Zacat­lan Mur­al Project was start­ed in 2014, and these images are of the Indige­nous Nahua Sec­tion, the Con­tem­po­rary Zacat­lan Mur­al, and the Catholic Faith Sec­tion. There is a dou­ble intent in the Adam Eve mur­al, as Zacat­lan is famous for it’s Apple orchards, Zacat­lan de las Man­zanas. The artis­tic ener­gy on the project has been immense.

Each mur­al SECTION, which makes 3 sides of a very large square, is more than 100 meters long! (300 meters plus. total). It is a visu­al extrav­a­gan­za, and when you first see it, it will give you chills, as you start to appre­ci­ate the thou­sands of hours of hands-on, piece by piece work that this Mur­al required. This is very much a community/volunteer sup­port­ed project. Zacat­lan is a des­ig­nat­ed Mag­ic City in Mex­i­co, and now has it’s Mag­ic Mur­al.

Major fund­ing in the form of Seed and fol­low up grants was pro­vid­ed by The Wil­mette Arts Guild (WAG). WAG has a long his­to­ry of spon­sor­ing pho­to­graph­ic doc­u­men­ta­tion of less­er known cul­tur­al events here in Mex­i­co. Olneystu­dio has done sev­er­al projects for WAG over the years, and we were on assign­ment to doc­u­ment the inau­gu­ra­tion. The BBC has used sev­er­al of our images done while on assign­ment for WAG. You can see our work by going to Google>Images>George Olney Cuet­za­lan.

The inau­gu­ra­tion  took place Sat­ur­day, Oct. 8, 2016.