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Similarly, Baca (2017) describes her Memoria de Nuestra Tierra (2007) mural:
In a sense this is an excavation of the Chicano/Chicana’s complexity as
indigenous people, and of their multiple identities as mixed Spaniards,
Africans, and Asians, living among newly immigrated Irish, Greek and
Italian people. This is an excavation and a remembering of their histories.
By revealing what is hidden, through pictorial iconography in the
land, this mural is a kind of Mayan map not really intended to guide
your path, but instead to tell you about the road.
Rather than post-modern, anything goes thought these statements reveal a directed
form of thought that juxtaposes viewer’s individual interpretations of the murals with
specific Mexican-American symbolism.
These murals help explore Deleuze’s thought outside of film or movies. They show a
reordering of space and time�the core of Deleuze’s cinematic thought. Moreover, these
encounters may radicalize people’s thought. These encounters also correct some limitations
of Deleuze’s theories, such as: (a) his Eurocentric focus (Martin-Jones 2011)
which these murals show to be ahistorical, and (b) his individualistic focus, meaning
that while viewers can interpret murals in multiple ways, interpretations must politically
focus on Mexican-American experience.
Acknowledgments
This project was supported by funding from JSPS Kakenhi Grant #16K21087 Immigrant
Media in Relation to Environmental Issues in the U.S. Southwest, 2016–2018.
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