Ramon Eduardo Nayarez

Going to see the murals and critique them was a great experience. The class was looking at the murals and we answered questions about what they meant, what and how was the Chicana imprinted in the murals? Some of the murals had a Chicana meaning and others were structurally painted to represent the influences of our history, our religious beliefs, and a new identity being a Mexican American in the US. Being a Mexican American and also born and raised here in a border city, I saw in the murals the authenticity of our community. There was a mural with the building of the EPCC, but I did not see one of UTEP. I saw a brown female with the center of the Aztec calendar in her stomach. The same sign was in her head. When we were in the restaurant talking about the murals more in detail we kept learning the meaning of the center of the X of Juarez. It represented the same figure the female had in her stomach. This figure it represents the center of the Aztec calendar. The Aztecs guided the...

Quien Soy Yo? Who am I? I did a painting representing me and my surroundings. I did two mountains that represent mom and dad. I did a night sky to complement on the spiritual higher aspects of life. The full moon represents God's presence as an eye that watches as us as a whole. I am the dry tree. The tree is not really connected to the floor but is a baby face sucking the breast of mother nature. On the tree's branches I wrote the word TRUTH. Even though the background of the tree is green the tree does not care on being dry and having an appearance that is not appreciated to the eye. One branch of the tree broke from the tree of TRUTH and the first leaves are green the middle are yellow and the end is dark brown representing that in the beginning the branch did not see the difference, with time it turned yell...