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Artist: Ian Pierce, aka Artes Ekeko
Title: SANCTUARY CITY, SANCTUARY NEIGHBORHOOD
Location: North Philadelphia

In 2019, a block-long mural went up in North Philly celebrating Philadelphia as a sanctuary city. The image depicts immigrants crossing the U.S. Southern border.

Learn more about the symbolism and detail of the piece here: https://whyy.org/articles/philly-sanctuary-is-an-explosion-of-latinx-pride/

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Most of the 3,000-square-foot image, “Sanctuary City, Sanctuary Neighborhood,” is taken up by a young woman with a giant Afro. Her hair is comprised of intertwined symbols of Latinx heritage. There are too many to list here, but the ‘do includes Mexican Day of the Dead skeletons, an Aztec Quetzalcoatl feathered serpent, a dancing devil from Bolivia, and a pair of gods from the Yoruba religion of West Africa. The woman is pushing aside border walls. On her shoulders are tattoos: the word “sanctuary” on the right; on the left an American flag. Dead center of the mural are her dark eyes, set under thick brows, ready to move forward.

“I don’t want her to be fierce. I want her to be determined,” said Ekeko, the artist. “It’s also important that it’s a ‘she.’ All over the world, women are being real agents of change. It thought it was important for the central image to be a woman.”

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