Post Modern Mayan Architecture
by Mark Tisdale
Title
Post Modern Mayan Architecture
Artist
Mark Tisdale
Medium
Photograph - Photo
Description
I literally stumbled across this on a long ramble through the streets of Merida one day. I was in an area that I wouldn't have particularly considered touristy when the bright colors of this building called me down the street to investigate closer.
It turned out to be a derelict building. i suspect it might have been a motel at one point. And it's clear that the architect who designed this building was capitalizing on Merida being nearby to so many well known Mayan ruins. The result is sort of a stylized modern Mayan art. The face masks remind me a lot of what I saw at Uxmal, but with very modern sharp lines.
The colors are on the bright side, but so were the Mayan ruins originally so even though this has an incredibly kitsch feel to it, it may be closer to historical than one thinks at first blush!
Whatever the case, I fell in love with the bright colors and the decaying but modern take on what their Mayan ancestors had built once upon a time. And I still wish I knew the story of this forgotten piece of post modern Mayan architecture in Merida, Mexico!
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April 18th, 2013
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