"The Magical Sancocho," by Pablo Kalaka, 2022

“Five people of different ages, genders, and skin colors come together to celebrate what I call the “magical sancocho”. Sancocho is a wonderful soup common in Latin America with a number of flavors and ingredients that occur simultaneously in great harmony despite its diversity. It is an apt metaphor for Latin America. It is magical in the sense of magical realism, a mainly literary and very Latin American genre that explains reality without forgetting that our countries and continents are marked by a magical vision that continues to explain reality in all its truth. I envision these characters as migrants, and instead of potatoes and meat coming out of the stew pot, it is the sun of their places of origin and the neighborhoods from which they came. What they have on their table are their memories, the beloved things that define them as people and that are in their present even though they no longer have it with them. - the sea, fish, the vegetation, a coquí, the infinite colors of the Caribbean and South America, music, etc.” – Pablo Kalaka

Pablo Kalaka is a painter, muralist, and illustrator. His murals can be seen in Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Cuba, Mexico, France, Germany, Spain, and the US.

IG: @pablokalaka

This mural is located at 827 Sherman St.