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Sonoran Dreams
Refer to the tile map below to find the location and number assigned to each tile. To see an enlarged photo of the tile of interest, find its number among the thumbnails below, and click on the thumbnail to go to the gallery and see a close up of the tile, along with its associated artist statement.
This tile map lists the locations of each tile in the Sonoran Dreams project
Links to Gallery
This design has the wing of an eagle superimposed with a moon and a sun.
This design shows the scarab beetle, Dynastes grantii on a tree stump showing the growth rings.
This design shows canal-like grooves in a concentric arrangement to represent the irritation system developed by indigenous people of the Sonoran Desert.
This tile shows Scolopendra heros, commonly-named the giant desert centipede in a Mayan inspired design.
This design has a background that mimics a woven basket and the foreground has symbols of the Tohono O’odham creation story with a central figure and algae.

Fly to a New Day (A1)

Revolutionizing Insects (A2)

Lines in Irrigation (A3)

Jaws of the Underworld (A4)

First Life (A5)
This design shows intertwining circles with a snake, symbols from the Zuni culture.
This design shows a rain cloud within a circle with butterfly symbols at the top and bottom.
This design shows a scarab beetle on a background of geometric triangles and diamonds.
This design illustrates the life of a citrus cicada, and depicts the cicada on mesquite tree, emerging as an adult from its exuvia (exoskeleton), with the sun in the background.
This design shows several honeypot ants, Myrmecocystus mexicanus, inside their nest.

Intertwining (A6, E2)

Necessities of Life (A7) 

Scarab Beetle (A8)

Diceroprocta apache (A9)

Emergency Supplies (A10)
This tile shows a hummingbird symbol common to ancestral people of the Sonoran Desert.
This design has a background of geometric shapes onto which hummingbirds in flight are superimposed.
This tile shows Stamomantis limbata, also known as the Bordered Mantis or Arizona Mantis in a classic protective pose standing on its rear legs with the forelegs up and spread wide.
This design shows feathers superimposed on geometric designs.
This design shows the Iron Cross Beetle, Tegrodera aloga on a leaf like background.

Hummingbird Spirit (B1, C3)

Hummingbirds in Flight (B3, C11, T9)

Desert Protector (B4)

Feathers (B5, C8)

Iron Cross Beetle (B6)
This design shows ½ of the face of a wolf, created from a meshing of geometric patterns.
This tile shows the face and flowing hair of the corn maiden with a corn plant in the background.
This tile shows an iconic sun symbol.
This tile has a saguaro cactus centered on a plain background.
This design shows an eagle soaring with a mountain in the background.

The Apex Predator (B7)

Corn Maiden (B8, T5)

Constant Sun (B9, C1)

Saguaro Cactus (B10)

Eagle Soaring (B11)
This tile is filled by a spiral design.
This tile shows a dragonfly on a stem in a classic position.
Owl flying over an agave
This tile shows the face of an owl with one eye turned towards the viewer.
This tile shows an owl flying in front of the moon.

Spiral (B12, C6)

Mexican Amberwing (B13)

Eye of Wisdom 1/2/3 (B14, T7)

Eye of Wisdom 1/2/3 (B16)

Eye of Wisdom 1/2/3 (D1)
This design shows a central bear’s paw with the claws in the shape of raindrops with symbolic clouds and rain above it.
This tile shows a mythological bird called the Ku Bird.
This tile shows an iconic small owl.
This design shows a rabbit within a series of spirals.
This tile shows an iconic indigenous spider design.

Guidance (C4)

The Ku Bird (C7)

Owl of the Night (C9)

Eternal Prosperity (C10)

Spider Grandmother (C12)
This tile shows a butterfly on its flowering host plant.
This tile shows a prickly pear cactus.
This tile shows the metamorphosis of an insect in stages from the top of the tile to the bottom.
This design shows a silk moth with enlarged antennae showing the feather nature of these structures.
This tile shows a root boring beetle on a background of iconic roots.

Mimicry (C13)

Prickly Pear Cactus (C15)

The Metamorphic Connection (C16)

Condalia Silk Moth (D2)

Creepiest Critters (D3)
This tile shows a hemipteran insect known as the Harlequin Cabbage Bug.
This tile shows an indigenous symbol for the thunderbird in the center with lines in decreasing size underneath.
This tile shows a flower symbol with a basket weave design in the background.
This tile shows a dreamcatcher with a spider in the web and feathers hanging down.
This tile shows the indigenous symbol for a horned toad, with a mountain and sun symbol above it.

Murgantia histrionica (D4)

The Thunderbird (D5)

The Growth of Time (D8)

The Dream Catcher of Love (D9)

Hope of the Horned Toad (D10)
This tile shows a dream catcher.
This tile shows a rhinoceros beetle with leaves in the background.
This tile shows two scorpions facing one another with their tails raised for striking.
This tile shows an intertwining snake design on a geometric background.
Sonoran Dreams corner tile

Dream Catcher (D11)

Dynastes grantii (T4)

Arizona Bark Scorpion (T6)

Duality of the Snake (T8)

Cornerstone Sun Ray