escuincle: max mejías
  
 
 
 
 

childhood story

  
I was born in a small town called Loma Bonita (Beautiful Hill), which is not a hill and it is not that beautiful. One day, I was walking to school with my brother and sister when suddenly out of nowhere, this little piglet started following us. We thought it was very funny but then he kept following us. At this time, we tried to scare him away but to no avail. As we continued walking to school, the piglet insisted on following our trail. We had to walk daily over 25 minutes to go to school. This piglet made it almost all the way. When we were walking by my aunt’s house, she stopped and asked us where we got this pig. We explained that it had followed us here. She told us she would keep it and feed it until the owner claimed it. Time went by and the piglet grew and had piglets of its own. My aunt proposed to me that I could keep four of the piglets and she would keep three and the mama pig. I then sold my piglets to a couple of guys known as the Ardilla (squirrel) Brothers. With the money they paid me, I decided to buy a bicycle. This happened to be the first bicycle in town. I even had to go to the next town over to purchase it! I didn’t know how to ride a bike but I could ride a horse. So the next few weeks I spent trying to tame this new vehicle. From then on every time we went outside of town, we got to ride my bike, which made everyone else envious.
 

featured artist: alejandro garcia-lemos painter, colombia
 
 
I am originally from Bogota, Colombia. At the age 4 I did my first abstract: "Peces del Amazonas". After I graduated from a very strict catholic school, were art was not considered important, I was admitted to the Facultad de Bellas Artes of the Unversidad Nacional de Colombia.
I graduated as a Graphic Designer with a minor in Art History. While working in my Master's
Degree in Latin American Studies at Miami I joint the Miami Beach Art Center for more studio training and practice. Since 2002, I have been living, working and making art in Columbia, SC. My focus now is on Latino issues and immigration in the South. I have showed extensively my work in galleries and museums in Bogota, Miami, Kansas City, San Antonio, Clemson and
Columbia among other places
  
 
 
painting created by alejandro garcia, inspired by max's childhood story
  
 
 

Maximiliano, el cestero.
(Maximiliano, the basket weaver)

Acrylic on canvas.