The Pelican hope making his approach to the

making his approach to the brick unique in using the brick facade as a grid system to highlight and extract an image from it

He calls this act of tracing and  painting bricks and mortar lines

” including frequent collaborator Juan del la Mora

Jalostotitlán and Santa Maria Ixcatlan to name a few

The Pelican hope making his approach to theThe Pelican. A white pelican sits peacefully along the side of a Chicago west town building, where it seems to have its eyes set on the elevated subway and the many passersby. Its realistic head and feet, paired with its abstract body show two ways of perceiving the world wrapped into one. Artist: Juan De La Mora is an architect and self taught artist. The Chicago born son of Mexican immigrants, he is deeply interested in bilingualism and how his two