The Street Artist of Canyon Country 

Driving across the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona can be like thumbing through a flipbook. The pictures you see are mostly black and white, some in color, murals flashing past at sixty or seventy miles per hour, or slowly behind a Ford pickup doing forty, where an abandoned structure slides by with a huge artwork on its side, a girl’s face, and she wears a mask made out of a cotton Blue Bird Flour sack. If you’re going slowly enough, you’ll see her eyes are smiling and she’s holding one baby rabbit in her hands and another is perched on her shoulder. She takes up the entire side of the one-story building.

If you come through here often enough, perhaps on the way to the Grand Canyon in the south or Cedar Mesa up north, you might recognize the girl. She’s been appearing on walls since she was a toddler. In this flipbook, you’ve been watching her grow.

U.S. Route 160 hugs the southern edge of Skeleton Mesa. A canyon