During the corona period there where lockdowns in 2020 in the whole world. Offices, school, restaurants, bars, community buildings all closed. Also in Lázaro Cárdenas, Guerrero Mexico. Lázaro Cárdenas is a very polluted industrial city where most people moved to work in the harbour. The port exports automobiles from various Mexican assembly plants to markets in Southeast Asia and South America. There is not much history or culture in this city. Some parts of this city actually reminded me of Detroit where I stayed during 2013 & 2014. My Mexican artist friend Pato Azulita, born and raised in Lazaro, opened a community art gallery called LaCA.
During the lockdown the schools where closed so he rent the space and started to invite the kids to be creative, there where playing in the streets a lot. All workshops and materials where free and donated. All is very DIY and not funded or sponsored. The kids came very often to paint or to help recycling. Pato also invented a recycle and compost program which is now been used in several coastal communities in Guerrero. I visited the gallery and volunteered to help with a press workshop on International Womansday in 2021 and created a beautiful design what honors the balance of the feminine  and masculine in and outside of us.