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Dine (Navajo) and Chicana artist Nanibah Chacon’s cultural heritage and experience inform her work as both a muralist and activist. The New Mexico-based painter has made an homage to the indigenous people that have passed through or continue to live in the Catskills. The woman in the mural uses the proportion of her hand to measure the stars and navigate. The unique patterns correspond to various tribes and indigenous cultures. Plants represent local herbs and fauna, while the infant signifies the continuation of cultural practices through the generation, “Which in essence bind us to home” states Chacon.