Public art for the masses: This graffiti piece was done on butcher paper and hung in the Mission district. Looks like it had been put up for a while as the paper had started to peel away from the brick wall. Asked a vendor who was selling Dia de los Muertos memorabilia across the street who she was and with a gleam in his eye he said it represented Mother Earth or Pachmamma. Pachamama is a goddess revered by the indigenous people of the Andes. Pachamama is usually translated as Mother Earth, but a more literal translation would be "Mother world" (in Aymara and Quechua mama = mother / pacha = world or land; and later widened in a modern meaning as the cosmos or the universe). Pachamama and Inti are the most benevolent deities; they are worshiped in parts of the Andean mountain ranges, also known as Tawantinsuyu (the former Inca Empire) (stretching from present day Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile and northern Argentina being present day Peru the center of the empire with its capital city in Cuzco). Thank you for stopping by. All your comments and views are greatly appreciated.