On preserving Gilberto Guzman’s “Multi-Cultural” mural in Santa Fe, New Mexico

I’ve got an op-ed (written with my father) out in my hometown newspaper The Santa Fe New Mexican today on the necessity of preserving a mural that has a deeply primal hold on my subconscious. Something about it has always felt Jungian, the figures and forms looming large over flashes of my sun-baked southwestern childhood. There are a few photos beyond the jump. Read more about the controversy over its destruction here

One particular figure in the mural imprinted itself deep within my own subconscious, the bull creature on the left.