Mill Avenue District Utility Box & Tempe Public Library Card

With this piece called “Tempe Roots” I'm representing the ancient history of the city of Tempe starting with the Hohokam culture making honor to their native place and for being the builders of the water canals that have a direct connection with the Rio Salado.

The Hohokam are represented by their own petroglyphs and by the classic Toltec symbols of the corn, beans and squash. The concentrical circles represent their world and this symbol is where the water of the Rio Salado comes from.

The next important image are the three Mexican farmers that dug out the irrigation canals and built new ones to carry Salt River water to their fields to supply food for the Fort McDowell and mining towns. They founded the town called San Pablo east of Tempe Butte.

The main image is the Tempe Butte representing the unique characteristic of the city; this one is covered with images of the Hohokam's petroglyphs including the A for the Arizona State University.

The sun comes from the classic Mixtec cultural images with its original colors that reflect the Valley of the Sun.

The cactus plants and the rattlesnake from the bottom are part of the desert's vegetation that complements the whole concept of the place.

Oliverio Balcells 2011

CALA'S Diego Rivera Project with artist residence Oliverio Balcells

3 moths, 3 schools, lots of experiences and big smiles.
Thanks Cala and Childsplay for this opportunity to let me be part of this amazing festival and share my artist view with the students.

Till next year...
Oliverio Balcells

Printing Experience with Cooper Artist Cecilia Calderon

Doing prints for other artists has been another area of service from my print shop Four Lizard.
In this video Cecilia Calderon talks about her experiences of sending to print her unique cooper art work with me.

If you have art pieces that you would like to print or if you know somebody that need this kind of promotional call me and I can help you out.

Oliverio
602-301-4384

A beautiful Mayan town on the 7 color bay called Bacalar

One of my favorite spots on the south of the state of Quintana Roo Mexico; this Mayan town has a fort from the colonial times when the Spanish people were fighting with the French and the English invaders.
My brother and I were traveling all the way to Belize looking for the Lost Paradise, a name that I had put on the land I was looking for buy and build a house; so we found this amazing town where we got the chance to camp and spend the night on a friendly owner of a big back yard with two restrooms, right at the edge of the bay. It was cloudy and starting to rain at night, what experience.

Another thing to mention is that after we set up our camp, we went to have some tacos to the town and we starting to realize the everything was close, and we only found a place open at the bus station and asked about why everything was close; then we knew that the town goes to sleep around 6:30 - 7pm. So no cars, no people, no noizes, no lights, just to the soft rain and the sensation of being in a magical place.

http://www.photosmexico.oliveriobalcells.com/proddetail.php?prod=bacalar1-r2&cat=29

Colorful houses in Alamos Sonora

Traveling back from one of our longest trips ever in 2006, we were lucky to stop at this incredible historic town called Alamos; this was the capital of the state of Sonora before Hermosillo.

The lanscape high desert, the weather in the summer nice and raining, the people friendly and keeping the town clean and beautiful.

So if you are looking for business opportunities in Hermosillo, you can relax the next day in Alamos and come back to the Valley of the Sun as you were in LA.

Printing services experience with Filibertos

Fernando Guerrero, Director of Regional Operations for Filibertos talks about working with Four Lizard & Oliverio Balcells.