A commission for the central terminal of Denver International Airport, Colorado. “The Memory of Our Land” explores Chicano/Mexicano history of the southwest, in particular the passage through El Paso, the “Ellis Island” of the Southwest, in the 1919-23 Mexican migration north to Colorado. This work represents the artists family story of migration from Chihuahua to Colorado.

To compile the historical imagery used in this work, in-depth research and extensive dialogue with the Hispanic people of Colorado took place over a period of two years.