From a distance they resemble chubby bunnies playing ring around the rosie around the Confederate Monument in Travis Park, but their messages of peace and love from San Antonio’s sister city of Monterrey, Mexico, become quickly evident. Peaceful valentines from a country pleading for peace.
We had just walked by the bell of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, the bell Sam Maverick supposedly forged from a cannon used during the Battle of the Alamo. Coming up to the cannon “guarding” the monument in Travis Park, we found the board announcing the peaceful exchange of art leaning against it. The statue memorializing the Confederate dead temporarily is framed by 30 peace signs as interpreted by emerging artists from Mexico.
Mano Factura: Arte Regio remains on display until March 5.
Postcards from Barton Springs 