Artists in Mexico turn low-income neighborhood into one giant mural

A community project in central Mexico is bringing art to people’s homes. Literally.

Artists known as the Germ Collective have spent 14 months turning the hillside neighborhood of Las Palmitas into a giant, colorful mural in an effort to bring the working-class “barrio” together and change its gritty image.

Working hand-in-hand with residents, muralists have painted the facades of 200 homes bright lavender, lime green, incandescent orange – hues more commonly found in a bag of Skittles than in the drab, cement-and-cinder block neighborhoods where many of Mexico’s poor people live.

Seen from afar . . .

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