To Be Made Whole In The City is a photographic installation from artist Marcus Xavier Chormicle (born, Tuxon 1997, based out of Las Cruces, NM/Séc-He (“Palm Springs, CA”), 2nd lineal descendant of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians). The work consists of urban landscapes made by Chormicle between 2017-2020, when he lived in the PHX area; and portraits of young Native people, that Chormicle met through art, who are living in the Phoenix area. The landscapes were made during Chormicle’s first time living in a heavily urban area. The city carried a weight that at times seemed to flatten the very spirit of the individual, and produce a homogenized being. When Chormicle decided to reapproach the work in 2024, he felt differently about the city. There is space to carve out individuality and resist the flattening of self. The portraits assert the individuals as whole beings, 3 Dimensional people, who exist in relation to each other, the land and the spirit, resisting the weight of the city. The inherent hope found in people living their lives, and choosing to continue to make art, and be in community with one another shows that no city, idea or agenda is capable of truly flattening us.