In March of 2022 I completed a 25 x 30 foot mural at 601 E. 2nd St., Fort Worth, TX 76102 as part of the T.I.M.E. Mural project sponsored by Sundance Square and Artspace III. The mural depicts monarch butterflies and native Mexican / Texan milkweed and reads “migration is beautiful” across the top. Through this mural I hope to inspire reflection on what it means to migrate or have free movement. I am confronting the contradictory associations the word “migration” tends to bring up; this is especially important here in Texas where we are very much implicated in ongoing discussions regarding central American migration into the United States (a source of great discord) and simultaneously in the direct migratory path of the Monarch butterfly, (something we openly celebrate even as we destroy the monarch’s habtitats). These contradictions hit at the root of our problematic, anthropocentric relationship with the natural world as well as a need to engage more wholly with ideas of coexistence, symbiosis, and kindness in the modern world.