"Quinto Sol" by Frederico Vigil 1992
Sponsored by Neighborhood Pride
This is a fresco, created by painting on wet lime plaster. It features a woman, pregnant with the future, surrounded by references to the history of mural painting. Included are pictographs, images from Mexican muralists David Alfaro Siquieros and Jose Clemente Orozco, and a fragment of Michelangelo's "Creation of Man" from the Sistine Chapel ceiling. The title comes from the pre-columbian conception of time; we are currently inhabiting the "5th sun," or the fifth cyclical epoch of creation. Vigil and his assistants also created a collaborative fresco at this site called "City of Angels," .