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The grid is divided into 10 square images with each image representing a ten year period from the one hundred year period that my maternal and paternal grandmothers’ families were immigrating to the United States from Ireland and Mexico. The birds flying in from the top right corner represent Ireland while the birds flying in from the bottom left corner represent Mexico. The opacity of each set of birds directly corresponds to the population ratio of Irish or Mexican immigrants to the overall population of immigrants in the United States from 1840 to 1940.