Artist Cruz Ortiz helped restart the tradition of murals on the West Side of San Antonio in the early 1990s.
and painted in 2006 from actual photographs made by Vietnam veterans and their families, now serves as the backdrop for the city’s annual Veteran’s Day commemoration.is located at 1500 W. Commerce Street.Murals once populated the walls of the Cassiano Homes Apartments
Ever cognizant of history and heritage, Ortiz said those murals born of the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s were a primary inspiration and a reason to keep the mural tradition alive. Today, the wall stands ghostly white, an “apparition” in Ortiz’s terms. “There’s nothing wrong with the cycle of life [of a mural] in that sense,” he said, recalling the “DIY” punk rock ethic that formed him. “They go up, but then they’re gonna fade and they’re gonna chip and they’re gonna fall apart, and it’s never going to be the same.”once existed.The Cassiano Homes murals were already gone by the time he and his cohort started their work.
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