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ROOTS / RAICES

Los Sonorenses

An early piece I did placing together three original Sonorans.
Los Sonorenses 2012
Los Sonoreneses 2012

Doña Imelda, curandera

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Dona Imelda Curandera
Doña Imelda, Curandera 2014

Ed Keeylocko

Black cowboys were common in the Old West. Here's a piece of their forgotten history.

This painting was inspired by a photo courtesy of Brandi McDowell in an article in the AZ Republic.
Rancher built tiny town on a dream. What happens now that he's gone?
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Ed JB Keeylocko
Ed J.B. Keeylocko 2020

La Adelita de La Frontera

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Adelita de La Frontera 2011
Adelita de La Frontera 2011

Tucson International Mariachi Conference Poster
Contest Entry 2010

TIMC Mariachi Poster entry 2010
TIMC Mariachi Poster entry 2010

Navidad en Baja AZ

Navidad 2019

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Navidad en Baja AZ
Navidad en Baja Arizona 2013
Navidad 2019
Navidad 2019

She Comes for Them 2012

Honoring all those whose bodies will never be found or identified...
(​Humane Borders body count 3398 and climbing)
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She Comes for Them
She Comes for Them 2012

For I really am your compassionate mother, yours and of all the people who live together in this land, and of all the other people of different ancestries, those who love me, those who cry to me, those who seek me, those who trust in me …

Ca nel nehuatl in namoicnohuacanantzin in tehuatl ihuan in ixquichtin in ic nican tlalpan ancepantlaca, ihuan in occequin nepapantlaca notetlazotlacahuan, in notech motzatzilia, in nechtemoa, in notech motechilia … 

Nican Mopohua, 29-31
​Nahuatl version of the apparition of Nuestra Señora to San Juan Diego.

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La Corua-Baboquivari-Mts
*  La Corúa  was a large, fierce looking but benevolent water serpent that lived in springs of water and protected them. They say it had a cross on its forehead and cleaned the veins of water with its long fangs or tusks. It was a shy creature but could sometimes be caught sunning on the rocks of the spring.  According to Sonoran folk beliefs, if one killed the Corúa, the spring would dry up.  Vanishing water sources and  economic pressures have pushed the folklore of La Corúa  to the dustbin of history on both sides of the border, but La Corúa remains in the minds and memories of elders in the Pimería Alta.

Serpents have been sacred for millennia to indigenous peoples throughout the Americas and are respected as guardians of water sources and bringers of rain.

* Beliefs and Holy Places - A Spiritual Geography of the Pimeria Alta  -  James S. Griffith, University of Arizona Press, 1992

Background painting:  Baboquivari Peak - the monolith landmark defining the Baboquivari mountains southwest of Tucson. The center of Tohono O'odham cosmology, it is sacred and is the home of I'itoi, their Creator and Elder Brother. The peak is visible from Casa Grande in the northwest, south into Mexico.  (I'itoi is also the figure in the O'odham 'Man in the Maze' basket design.)

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