We'll start on the north side, walk along the west side, then around the south side (which is now a pedestrian street, closed to traffic):
Here's an example of what you'll see in the rest of the post — the east end of the north side of the building and its label. There's more information after:
Saguaro (and explanation)
Almost every mural and door has a label to its right side. (As always, you can click on the lahel photo for a larger view.) I'll include the label after every mural photo. From top to bottom, the labels have:
- The name of the plant or the title
- The person who speaks in the corresponding video
- The artist(s) who painted it
- Who made the video
- A link to the luxxarte.com page
- A link directly to the video
OK? Let's start our walk around the building. The first doorway is to the right of the saguaro mural…
Olive
Mesquite
Prickly Pear / Nopal
Here's a close-up of the (very fun) window:
Corn / Maize
Chile / Chiletepin
Cholla
There's no label. Johanna Martinez painted the mural. She told me: “Somehow they never got an interview on the cholla.”
Tepary Beans
Agave
The south half of the west wall has three murals (Chile / Chiletepin, Cholla, and Tepary Beans), then a mural with one agave. The agave is partly hidden behind utility poles. Let's start with a photo of those, then look at the mural head-on and the agave from the right side:
Black Mission Fig
Tucson Rose
This door wasn't labeled, but Johanna Martinez painted the mural. She told me that the “mural was just for fun…not part of the Foodways project.” I didn't find a video on www.humanity360.org.
Dryland Farming
The mural's title on the label is “Ha:l Squash.” The QR code opens a video titled “Dryland Farming.”
Amaranth
Sonoran White Wheat
Pomegranate
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