"El hogar está dónde está el corazón“ by Adry del Rocío

This bittersweet ideal 

Migration is one of the most important topics in Mexico. Beyond its immediate political connotations, its relevance is evident in the fact that thousands of people within Mexico have moved from the place of their birth to the big cities looking for better job opportunities, while others have even gone as far as crossing the border to the US without papers in search of the American dream – this bittersweet ideal that promises satisfaction but tears families apart.

By way of expressing this sentiment and showing sympathy with all those Germans who have left their home country and with those who have adopted Germany as their new home, Adry created the mural El hogar está donde está el corazón (home is where the heart is). Painted in shades of orange, magenta, and violet, the mural features a woman, perhaps a mother who is far away from her children who have left in search of a better future. The birds fluttering around her head form almost a crown of feathers. If we look closely, we can see a heart of feathers to portray the long-distance love that provokes a sense of suffering each day as if one had lost something. This sensation is already palpable in the first layer of color because Adry del Rocío, who was born in Guadalajara, does not live in her home city either.

“This is a work that was created with great love for all those who have had to move away from their homeland, their country, or their city”, she says.
  Although she has a very distinctive style of her own, Adry del Rocío mentions a number of great female painters as points of reference and influence on her work: “I very much admire and am hugely influenced by Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington”, she says about two artists who, though they were not Mexican, did live there and were considered to be Mexican on account of their wonderful work.

Given that muralism was born in Mexico, it would be illogical if she had no connection to the great masters: “the work of Alfaro Siqueiros and Orozco always makes me shudder”, she comments.