Southwest Detroit Mural symbol of community pride

Posted: 11.15.2010

By NAOMI R. PATTON
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

Chilean artist Dasic Fernandez sat atop a scaffold with spray paint cans in hand Friday, putting the finishing touches on the mural on the side of the Hacienda Mexican Food Products building in southwest Detroit.

Fernandez, 24, and now living in New York, said he worked on the still untitled mural, featuring a corn farmer with one hand extended and the other holding a piece of corn, for the past two weeks.

For Lydia Gutierrez, Hacienda owner, the mural is meant to be a celebration of Latino and Hispanic pride. It also symbolizes Hacienda's production of corn tostadas, tortillas and tortilla chips.

"I wanted something that was going to stop people and say, 'Look at this -- it's beautiful,'" she said.

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