Una Bandera en La Calle San Jose

Photographed by Angel Rodriguez.

Passing by El Morro in Old San Juan before I get to Calle San Jose to my destination shoot of the day.

Make-up by Angel Rodriguez

My Look:

Shorts: Forever 21

Top: Lulus

Bracelet: Express

Pearls: Chanel

Shades: Freyrs Sunglasses

Shoes: Schutz

The drawing of a flag of Puerto Rico by the artist Rosenda Alvarez on a door in an abandoned house in Old San Juan , has become a new tourist attraction in the Caribbean city .

It is close to several businesses of leisure , also popular among tourists, like La Cubanita and La Factoria , and corner with San Sebastian Street . San Jose is possibly the best known of all the historic quarter thanks in large part to the many bars and restaurants that already hosts the popular festivals organized every year in January and give continuity to the Christmas celebrations.

At San Jose, in the heart of the walled city of Old San Juan , which is one of the colonial helmets of the most beautiful and best preserved of America Spanish era, is the abandoned house owned by the renowned Puerto Rican artist Nicky Quijano.

I imagine that people here are proud to stand in front of the work and take a picture . Even I have done. Is a very nice feeling, I see it more as a symbol or heritage of the people , "notes Alvarez , a graduate of the School of Visual Arts, in Old San Juan . Alvarez that his idea came in 2011, when he wanted to expose some paintings dedicated to Rafaela Valladares , forerunner of the traditional festivals of San Sebastian Street , and anthropologist and Puerto Rican historian Ricardo Alegria , but could not because of lack of permits. It was then that Quijano contacted Alvarez to encourage her to do some painting on the front door of his house

Since the drawing of the flag appeared on the facade of the house , passersby have been taking the habit of being located in front of her to be photographed next to the " monoestrellada " work of Alvarez recorder , 28 and a prominent Puerto Rican painter and graphic artist.

I imagine that people here are proud to stand in front of the work and take a picture . Even I have done. Is a very nice feeling, I see it more as a symbol or heritage of the people , "notes Alvarez , a graduate of the School of Visual Arts, in Old San Juan.

The work also is surrounded by engravings made ​​other artists, like Vero Rivera , Leila Mattina , Genaro Ramos , Elizabeth Barreto , Pamela Osorio and Roberto Tirado, from works of a selected group of historical and outstanding Puerto Rican writers as Lorenzo Homar , Rafael Tufino , Haydee Landing, Carlos Marichal and Carlos Raquel Rivera.

 

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