Bacalar

A colossal head dominates the concrete pillar beneath a Mexico City overpass in Bacalar, a mural by Dom Laporte. The figure's face emerges from a gradient field of coral pink and golden orange, its features rendered in stark black with geometric precision. Pale circular forms punctuate the dark surface—eyes, mouth, and scattered points across the face—creating an almost skeletal appearance that reads as both portrait and abstraction.

The composition anchors the viewer's gaze at the center, where the head fills the vertical expanse of the 59-by-19-foot surface. Streaking marks in black suggest movement or texture across the figure's features, while warm brushwork radiates outward from the central form. The artist's signature appears discretely at the lower right, grounding the work within its architectural context.

Laporte's approach merges figurative subject matter with gestural mark-making, the precision of the geometric elements contrasting against the fluid, painted background. Acrylic and spray paint work together across the concrete—the spray allowing for broad atmospheric effects while acrylic permits sharper definition in the facial structure. The work draws from the artist's original painting of the same name, adapting that vision to public space and monumental scale.