The Heavy Collective

    The Heavy Collective consists of two artists, Kimberly Duran and Bud Herrera. Formed in 2013, they have created artwork throughout Orange County, the City of Los Angeles, the Inland Empire, Hollywood, and Mexico City. The purpose of their collaboration is to encourage the youth to participate and engage in their local communities, with an emphasis on their unique Mexican heritage.

    Kimberly Duran is a native of Santa Ana and a first generation American. As a muralist, Duran was heavily influenced from her Chicana culture. She visited Mexico often during her childhood resulting in her pride of her Mexican heritage. Growing up in the United States, however, she felt as though her culture was looked down upon by the society in which she was living in. As a result, Duran focuses on blending both her Mexican and American heritages into her murals, placing a priority upon identity and community input.

    Sources:
    1. Kimberly Duran, “About,” 5hmi.com, 2018.

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    2018

    La Catrina

    Located on a billboard in the McFadden Market Place parking lot, the 15 ft. x 18 ft. mural depicts La Catrina as a white skull with flowing blue hair, two pink flowers adorning her hair, as well as a crown of yellow and orange flowers. Additionally, La Catrina has a third eye in the middle of her forehead, and she is flanked on both sides by strange machines. The mural itself was created shortly after the Public Market was transformed into the food hall/arcade that it is now, and stands as a remembrance of lost Mexican culture amidst a mechanical modern world and increasingly technological society.

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