Mexican Welcoming Committee 71 Max

automator · Thu Apr 30, 2009 8:17 pm

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mistersmith · Thu Apr 30, 2009 8:19 pm

Any Peter Max fans know anything about this image, and the title's significance to it? Looks to me like a woman hoolding her own head like a balloon, after it was violently and recently removed (still bleeding out of the neck...)

So why a Mexican welcome? Because of the violence against women in the area south of El Paso, Texas? Was cartel violence bad in '71 like it is today?

I think it's cool. Not $8,000 cool, but an interesting image/title. Anybody?

jojobadass · Thu Apr 30, 2009 8:28 pm

el paso and juarez was pretty laid back when I lived there in the 70's......people used to go over to each side daily/regularly. People used to go eat lunch in Juarez........now, no one goes to Juarez. I mean, everyone always had bars on their windows and the club in their cars........don't get me wrong, it was no pleasure palace; but, other than some stealin' and lootin', there was no real danger.

damn good mexican food........I miss that fudge.

mistersmith · Thu Apr 30, 2009 8:36 pm

Thanks man. I was never alive in the '70s (well, in utero I was) and never lived anywhere that wasn't less than 150 miles from an ocean...so I have zero idea as to what this thing could have meant. And now I know I have even less frame of reference

Time to go to my local library!