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MEXICO

I love to paint in Mexico where the colors are loud and tall. The colors of the flowers are violent; the incendiary crimson of the flamboyant blossoms, the magenta bougainvillea, striking red of the hibiscus; the scarlet hue of dahlias and the unsettling yellow of cempazuchitl, the national flower which covers the land. The blue iris couldn’t be more purple as the poet, Carlos Pellicer writes.