"Untitled" by Jovita Mercado

I made my control box pattern using photoshop and color pencils. The pattern is a visual representation of Chicanos (Mexican-Americans) historic migration from Yakima to Burien in the 1960s because of Boeing’s economic boom. This pattern consists of silhouettes of Yakima caballeros, airplane engines, airplanes, and aircraft mechanics with cactuses as their head or on their forehead. The cactus is a visual representation of my abstracted figures’ ethnicity and cultural heritage.