Fear of a Red Planet

Fear of a Red Planet was a mural created over a 5 month period in 1999 and was on view from 2000-2016 in the former gallery known as the Ullman learning center at the Heard Museum, Phoenix Arizona. The theme of the mural explored a history on the relocation and forced removal of indigenous people in the southwestern region of the United States. The stories I focused on were: the Navajo long walk, the colonization of the Yaqui (Yoeme) and their subsequent push north from their ancestral homelands of Sonora Mexico into the Arizona region of today. The mural also told the story of the boarding school experience, and the damning of the Colorado river and the impacts on floodplains of this natural waterway.

Today the mural is in the collection of the Heard Museum as 13 individual canvas panels.