Locality: Puente Aranda History of Puente Aranda - Agrupación M30 Western side The Agrupación M30 presented its project with the community of the Fundación de Adulto Mayor en Estado de Habitabilidad de Calle (Foundation for Older Adults Living on the Streets) in Puente Aranda. They held different artistic workshops on drawing, color theory, watercolors and acrylics. These workshops aimed to provide the older adults the opportunity to acquire this knowledge in these areas and apply it towards creating a mural next to the foundation where they live. In the visual proposal, they wanted to graph the species that formerly inhabited this territory where there was a large wetland and the Aranda Bridge, which crossed the wetland. Species such as the tingua, the copetón and the cucarachero were portrayed in this proposal, as well as the mestizo skins of the characters portrayed there, thus recalling our indigenous heritage. The local population we worked with asked the artists to portray animals, since when they lived on the street their only family were animals. Although the aforementioned birds are no longer seen in this area, they wanted them to be portrayed in this space so that adults passing by would remember them. Territorio a color (Territory in Color) - Agrupación Full Color Eastern side This mural made by the Full Color collective is a tribute to the Muisca territory, which represents the origin in the savannah and the identity of our Bogotá culture. As graffiti artists, we understand the value and meaning of our roots, giving priority to the sense of belonging to this territory that is part of every ancestral legacy of our culture. Throughout our work with the community of Puente Aranda, in the co-creative workshops we conducted extensive research where we collectively agreed on the connection that should exist between our work as artists and the value of representing our ideas, which should speak of the intimate legacy of our ancestors.
