This was a small portion of a portrait I spraypainted as a young adult in Mexico City, it was of a member of the CPJ [Consejo Popular Juvenil] a grassroots political/service community organization, who had been seriously injured and was at the point of dying. The capital of the Mexica Nation was Tenochtitlan, even though rushed to finish a massive mural and organize several artists and supplies for Earth Crew 2000, I found time to visit and photograph Teotihuacan, an ancient city 1,000 years older than the Mexica pyramids, various ruins and 12 temple platforms with Janos, Erik, Aaron, Ray, etc. Climbing up the backside of the pyramid of the moon and viewing the cryptic Calle de Los Muertos, as well as the central Socalo and ejercito military lineups was more than memorable indeed. The wall the government allocated for us to paint the full mural upon, was one of the last active buildings remaining from the Revolutionary war, thus the varied levels of pock-marked surface and texture. (MPC-HR 92/JV)