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Discussion of what took place on Sunday, Nov. 9, the day of the All Souls Procession out at the finale lot near the Mercado, has at times only recently taken to the Facebook internets only to be taken down in an hour or so.

It’s understandable. Moises Orozco, a loved local artist, allegedly jumped from the finale scaffolding and remains hospitalized.

We asked our All Souls Procession contacts if an official statement was forthcoming and we were told there was no statement at this time.

The incident allegedly happened around 2:45 p.m. and witnesses saw the artist, who had been there all week helping with set-up.

At the top of the platform where a large Odaiko Sonora drum stood, Orozco had been playing it, when someone affiliated with the drumming group asked that he stop and also asked him to get down. Then he allegedly jumped 20 feet down.

What happens next isn’t exactly clear for the Procession. Some have suggested it could impact the way the procession is insured and possibly make changes to the Procession and finale. But what we do know is that this isn’t exactly the first time Orozco has done something similar.

In September of last year, the Range reported when he fell from the Sculptors Resource Center, and his partner Phoebe Jenkins started a fundraiser to help pay for his medical expenses since he was uninsured. Back then, the incident was reported as an accident:

Phoebe Jenkins told us Orozco was in serious condition when he first arrived at UMC, but is expected to do well despite the serious nature of his injuries. Orozco had to have titanium rods placed in his face because when he fell on the sculpture he landed face first and he had to have a second surgery on his leg.

We’ll have more information this week as we talk with Tucson Police Department and other sources.

Meantime, let’s wish Orozco a full and complete healing.

This article appears in Nov 13-19, 2014.

8 replies on “What Happened to Tucson Artist Moises Orozco on All Souls Procession Day?”

  1. I hope the Weekly can get to the bottom of this. I have been told by sources who were eye witnesses that Mr. Orozco jumped and that his prior fall was also not an accident, and that there are more than two dozen eyewitnesses to what happened. I have also been told on very good authority that his girlfriend is going to great lengths to protect his reputation. Apparently the gentleman has a serious issue. Unfortunately, in this instance, it has impacted both a large number of incredibly dedicated folks who are involved with the Procession and its finale, and has also potentially jeopardized the procession. What I was told by All souls personnel about this: TELL THE TRUTH that Moises Orozco took a flying leap on purpose after being told repeatedly to get down from the position.

  2. Thank God Obama was smart enough to force him to buy insurance….he wasn’t insured? Or is jumping excluded?

  4. So whereas the original Moses got his kicks walking through the expansive Egyptian desert similarly to how Forrest Gump enjoyed his running across the USA with his assortment of hippy whores, our pathetic excuse for a Moises has a case of the jumpies, bumpies, and now most certainly the frumpies!!! Perhaps the lesson to be learned here folks is that next year they simply just need to build a scaffold that is another 552 feet in the air so ole Moises can test his mettle one last time! That should teach em, hey Phoebs?

  5. Sally McBarber, there’s no need to be passive-agressive and mean. We all would go an extra mile for the ones we truly love.

  6. “Thank God Obama was smart enough to force him to buy insurance…”

    Rat T is confused about how Romneycare works…

  7. I read this in the Tucson Model Magazine. I guess he really loves the skies and wants to fly away. ” Moises Orozco is a collaborative metal artist at the Sculpture Resource Center. He was born in Los Angeles, California, although he has lived in Tucson for most of his young, creative life. He is extremely spiritual, has a deep love for the desert, its skies, and is known in our urban community for his kindness, smile, positive attitude, and his abundance of self-taught artistic abilities His childhood was unfortunately turbulent due to his abusive father and he says with sadness, “As a child, all I wanted to do was fly away. I did everything I could to please him. My retaliation and escape from my own reality was to draw or make things.” Like most abused children, little Moises spent a lot of time imagining a better life, a life full of kindness, love and support, and he wishes that he had a teacher or someone that had influenced him in a positive manner.

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