These happy dudes are super colorful in spirit and in the way they live.  A new section on my blog called:  “The Way They Live” features Mr. Anado McLaughlin + Mr. Richard Shultz in their house in San Miguel de Allende.

“Everything is impermanent — you’re going to lose everything anyway,” his partner says, not unhappily.

His explanation of the mural on the house is itself a kind of mosaic. “Our Guadalupenized Ganesh,” he says, invoking the Mexican saint and the Hindu deity. “He’s the god who breaks through obstacles. She appeared to Juan Diego, an Aztec, in 1531, on a sacred hillside.”

“The palette is ‘no rules,’ ” he says. “When you have rules like only beige or oatmeal, you’re limited to that palette. When you use all the different colors, there are no rules, there is no editor. It’s very freeing.”

More about Anado’s art – http://madebyanado.com/

New York Times article – here