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del Pueblo Gallery / 5-c01-women Susan Simone (c) |
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The compositions is this series are based on photographs taken at Fiesta Del Pueblo 1998 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The moving voice of the Fiesta is music and the mood is strictly “south of the border”. The air smells of tacos, tamales and pasole. English and Spanish weave together. Workers from the fields, families who have “settled out” in town, young people, old people, new arrivals and native North Carolinians of all races and roots join together. In only a few years the Fiesta Del Pueblo has grown from a small local event (2,000 – 3,000) to a statewide celebration (30,000) that includes soccer matches, a health fair and a job fair.
The borders on the Fiesta Del Pueblo Series were created by scanning in photographs of the costumes of the performers including the decorations on the Aztec dancers from Mexico City, the displays of Mayan figures and designs at the festival, baseball hats, and flags from some of the countries represented at the Fiesta.