Mural collaboration: Alessandra Moctezuma and Eva Cockcroft; Homage to Siqueiros, 1998

(Old Self-Help Graphics building) 7280 Cesar Chavez Ave., Boyle Heights. 

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A meta-mural recreation of the mural America Tropical by David Alfaro Siqueiros that was painted in 1932 in Olvera Street's Italian Hall and subsequently white washed. The mural includes on the left, an image derived from a photograph that depicts Siqueiros, holding a t-square and on the scaffold while painting the mural. On the far right, the other black and white vignette presents the mural being covered up.