I included the images of Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones, a seven-year-old African-American girl from Detroit's East Side who was shot in the head and killed by police officer Joseph Weekley during a raid conducted by the Detroit Police Department's Special Response Team on May 16, 2010, Jakelin Caal Maquin, a seven-year-old Guatemalan girl who died after being taken into US Customs and Border Protection custody in 2018, and Ashlynn Mike, an eleven-year-old Navajo girl who was killed in New Mexico in 2016. I view issues of police brutality, immigrant internment and incarceration, and missing and murdered indigenous women as linked vestiges of white supremacy. I researched New Mexican flora, and chose symbolic flowers for each case. I layered these drawings over the portraits of each child. The final layer being Nazario Sandoval's work in mosaic-like fragments resembling broken glass. The cases and muses for the mural are not overtly named- their presence exists as almost as a background layer- the way these cases often linger in the background of my mind as life continues as "normal." The Mural title and quote “Nuestras Voces Son Sus Voces” encourages camaraderie between people of color, and a resolve to speak of individual experience, as well as speak up for others.

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