In February one year while it was a huge snowstorm in Western NY, I bought a vendor’s tricycle from a seller in Cholula, Mexico on ebay. My proposal to the seller was to keep it there–it would cost more to ship it then it would for me to get to Mexico. I met Hugo and his sons, Hector and Miguel who used their trikes to sell mango (cut up in a cup with tajin) and elottes (cobs of con on a stick with mayo, salt and cootja cheese.) Together with Hugo and artists from Colombia, England, Germany and the US, one tricycle was outfitted with an artist designed flag and otherwise went about its normal work. Hector said working with this flag (Utopia Toolbox, Augsburg, Germany) which reads “What do you really want,” was a unique challenge because people wanted to stop and talk about their feelings.
Terms:
Circulation (people, goods, services, ideas, populations)