GUILLERMO ARANDA-MENA

My RIDING dress code: Cycling lycras  Riding leathers Galloping Mexican-hat & zarape (aka poncho) Norton Commando rider  No limits: Teaching attire No limits: Professional academic attire Moleskin-Lego attire: architteto Lucha-libre attire Le Corb attire: visit to La Sagrada Familia,  3 July 2004  Wearable bottle openers attire! Liquid attire (PhD completion August 2003 - original cork). References: Cordula Rau. "Why Do Architects Wear Black?" Springer Wien New Yourk 2008. In German In German - again In French In Italian Should be in latin! In Japanese In English In French - again In German - again Guillermo Aranda-Mena © 2012 Attire at the MART (Middle Park Tram Stop, 15.09.12)

[de]CONSTRUCTING GAM is a brief and random visual reflection of things and objects which called my attention at some point my life. There is only a loose chronological order with no specific selection logic for the chosen images (nor is the object [ive] of this post) but rather a bunch of flashbacks. Perhaps some patterns emerge as orderly .... but that was pure chance! Deconstructing GAM includes disassembled toys, games or even images of parts of me and my past. No real particular reason but de-constricting GAM bit by bit. Mexico's puzzle is perhaps the only image that needs to be there - at the beginning - as it represents my initial coordinates on planet earth. Place were I was born and early years leading to my adolescence including México City (7 yrs), San Luis Potosí (3 yrs) and Guadalajara (12 yrs). I also spent summers or extended periods of time in the cities such as Cancún, Mazatlán, Tepic, Mexicali, Billings, Mt. and Vancouver, Ca. In January 1996 at the...