El amor de Don Goyo

The murals of Los Calladitos are like enormous pages of an illustrated book; in them, we discover a magical universe where characters with fantastic qualities appear, they are “guardians of the light”, accompanied by magical creatures called aluxes. In this wall, the character of Don Goyo, the protector of the Seven Colors Lagoon, came to be, after the artists met with a local family in Bacalar. Don Goyo, the artists explain, "is one of those ancient poets who takes his magic typewriter and, at sunset, almost at dusk, gets into his boat and goes to write in the middle of the lagoon. While he creates these beautiful verses, the aluxes gather to watch him work his magic. The aluxes are little creatures known among the townspeople as Mayan goblins who like to get into mischief. In this piece, also emerged the character of PUC, a friendly aluxe and best friend of Don Goyo, who appears in other murals as well as in a 3D model or toy that has been intervened by other artists. This mural was created for International Mother Tongue Day, and is located in the Casa Internacional del Escritor, in Bacalar. The work, in addition to alluding to the lagoon and its community, seeks to tell a story and convey a message about the positive and creative power of people. Goyo has a floating, magical typewriter in his hands, with which he writes his poems and attracts the aluxes. Some of them are around him, in the foreground, and there are others among the plants; among some small hills are his little houses. "Goyo is on top of his little boat that is getting too small for him because if you make your light grow, your talent is reflected in your physical size; that is to say, he becomes bigger as he improves in his art".