Eduardo was captivated by the iconography of the Metro, those figures that identify each of the 195 stations, whose design was inspired by the 1968 Olympics and were designed by designer Lance Wyman.
“It’s a lifelong hobby. As a child I lived in the Guerrero neighborhood, so we used the Metro constantly, it was something that I liked ever since, its iconography, the trains, the sounds.
The first wake he made was actually from an imaginary station, which he created as a gift.
“Developing a gift for my partner at that time I made a subway trail, it occurred to me, the signs, I think no one has done anything like that,” he says.
Now Eduardo reproduces the steles of the stations that people ask him for and also carries out special commissions with names of stations invented with special iconography or photographs. Each of the steles takes between 6 and 10 hours of work, depending on its complexity.
Some of his clients have worked in the Metro, while others are Chilangos who have changed homes but want to take a piece of Mexico City with them wherever they go.
Many people who live in the states, Eduardo points out, ask for their station as a reminder of past times.” ‘I lived here for a long time, it was the station I took when I went to study,’ they tell me.”
“There have been (customers) abroad to Canada, to the United States, to Colombia, to France, to Germany, where they have also requested the models of the stelae. Precisely there are people who are already in another place or some question and now it is the memory of the Metro, it is the icon of our city”, says Eduardo.
