Amapolas / Poppies

This mural is based on an image I created many years ago, based on a newspaper photograph of prisoners in the Guantanamo interrogation facility in orange jumpsuits and sensory deprivation hoods, and the association that image brought up of a field of orange poppies... 740 persons from 48 have been imprisoned at Guantanamo. 9 have died in the camp. Only 16 were ever charged. 30 still remain.

Fernando Martí (he/him/el) is a community artist, architect, poet and housing activist. His work reflects his formal training in urbanism, his roots in rural Ecuador, and his current home in San Francisco / occupied Ramaytush Ohlone land. His poetry, prints, ofrendas and constructions inhabit the space between ancestral cosmologies and a Latinx futurism.