
Photo: Sylver Blaque/Havana, Cuba
There was a show going on in the mercado.
People wearing bright colors and headwraps, pointed hats, cowboy hats, Cat-in-the-Hat style hats.
Faces decorated with painted designs. Piercing calls from day-glo lips.
Walking on stilts, dancing on stilts, slapping stilt-mounted bongo drums, effortless twirls on stilts while swirling large sections of brightly colored fabric.
A colossal fuschia dragon head with bulging yellow eyes, cavernous black nostrils, and knashing white fangs.
All eyes, we sauntered through the cobblestone streets of the mercado, passing all manner of Cuban life…
Boys playing a boisterous game of soccer with a deflated basketball and tattered, homemade goal net with more holes than net…
Women leaning out of high apartment windows hanging laundry…
Jineteros aggressively hassling tourists…. Continue reading