Week 7 Presentations

I chose Judy Baca’s public art mural “Memoria De Nuestra Tierra” 2001 on metallic coated substrate. The images landscape depicts the Colorado four-corners areas, which are Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. In the image, you see three people, a family, crossing a road. This family is describing the dangerous immigration that many families traveled from Mexico to the United States in the early 1900’s. The right of the image is an old photo of Judy’s grandfather around the time he had immigrated to the US. To the far right corner is a picture of what I believe to be a train and the railroad workers. During the 1920-1930’s there were many Asian and Mexican immigrants granted work permits for railroad jobs in the southwest of the united states so many Mexican workers took this opportunity of work and some stayed in the country after their services were completed. I found this to be very interesting because Judy Baca is incorporating the history of Mexican Americans. The artist incorporates images of 1920’s railroad Mexican workers, at least what I believe she is trying to state in this artwork, to proof that Mexican people have very well been present in the Unites States, was built by Mexicans, and originally owned by Mexico.