Digital Art for the Sonoran Heart.

Welcome to La Corua, home of Digital Art for the Sonoran Heart.

I am an artist devoted to exclusive digital works of art that illuminate life in the Arizona Borderlands. Rooted in a vanishing Sonoran folktale, La Corua brings our historical heritage alive and breathes life into our community and culture. I retired from business as La Corua in 2014, but I still enjoy creating beautiful cultural art through this mythical namesake.

Latest Work:

Box design for Loteria de Tucson 2018

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La Corua is a water serpent that lives in springs of water and protects them. According to Sonoran folk beliefs, if one killed the Corua, the spring would dry up. La Corua represents the essence of life in the desert. In Mexico, snakes are also associated with rain and thunderstorms.
Source: Beliefs and Holy Places - A Spiritual Geography of the Pimeria Alta - James S. Griffith, University of Arizona Press, 1992.