Dominick Porras, M.F.A.

There is no need for a border wall particularly in Big Bend Texas where no one crosses the border.
Big Bend is a wonderful place for several local folk have fostered relations and fighting to protect the land.
What is forgotten is, Big Bend is a sacred site. A sacred site under attack by construction for a pointless border wall.
Big Bend is not only unique for its geological structure, it is home to several Rock Paintings from early Jumano and other Coahuiltec cultures.
The painting below is within Big Bend Area within proximity to the ongoing construction. It reveals the ongoing ceremonial practices that continued during the early Rio Grande colonial project-Mission era of the 1600’s.
I acknowledge these works as classical paintings that inform the ethnogenesis of early Tejano culture. Each painting details so many spiritual and social aspects during contact.
My current work as a Fulbright Fellow in Canada through @indigenousfuturesrc
I am focusing on is animating several scenes from the Rock Paintings of the Pecos River and to help create awareness on this topic at hand.

This painting was crafted by Forrest & Lulu Kirkland in 1930, during their archeological rock art survey.
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