"My father has been painting for [35] years, since 1970. He started working as a muralist in his hometown of San Ysidro, California--right on the border. He has been a positive influence for many young people, showing there is a better way than gangs, drugs, and violence. He would travel from the border to Chicano Park in San Diego. Since then he has gone to Germany twice to paint canvases, sizes 15 x 12, on two different theatre houses. The first mural was for the 500 years since Christopher Columbus got lost and was saved by the Americans. My father has painted a dozen murals in the Mission District in downtown San Francisco [as seen in these photos]," says Eric Paul.
Today, Mr. Paul paints with his son, Eric. Together, they have painted murals around the Mission, including a colorful and intriguing series above the Dominguez Bakery down the block from Precita Eyes. The sequence depicts Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl, star-crossed lovers who are the main characters in a Romeo-and-Juliet legend about two volcanoes near Mexico City.
“It’s all about keeping the culture of home alive,” said the elder Mr. Paul. “The stories, the legends, the history — in many ways, murals are records of the past.”
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