Alien Toy

"Venimos de Marte, ¿de Marte de quién?". "Los marcianos llegaron ya y llegaron bailando el ricachá. Ricachá, ricachá, ricachá así llaman en marte el cha cha cha". Dr. Octagon says: "Earth people, New York & California, I'm from Jupiter". A very strange pick up truck with sixteen hydraulic systems has been sighted close to the San Ysidro border. Images of extraterrestrial phallic creatures drinking beer or in revolutionary outfits can be seen in Tijuana. 39 earthlings got black Nike sneakers before crossing the gate to heaven in Rancho Santa Fe, San Diego. Others haven't been that lucky and have been deported. The dystopian deconstruction of modernism is what we call desmothernismo from the word desmadre in our mother tongue. Salvador Chava Muñoz (radical bed dance world champion four years in a row) from San Ysidro altered the shape and the function of his car to an extreme where it is hard to recognize it at all. His research locates him in the avant garde of low rider culture. The Chevy Impala is the classic and revered mechanic icon and fetish of cold war post industrial America. The tradition dictates not to worship other makes. You shall alter the function but not the shape of the Chevy Impala. Nobody is a prophet in its own planet. Pablo Ruiz Picasso had to leave Spain and settle in Paris in 1904 in order to break with tradition and the original form. As an outsider he was free to break Brunelleschi's laws of perspective and the notions of French good painting. He ...