The Royal Chicano Air Force is an artist group from the Sacramento area consisting of Juanishi Orosco, Esteban Villa, and Stan Padilla, artists who have worked together collaboratively for many years as well as on their own. 

For the Capitol Area East End Complex project they designed a figurative mural, painted on the ten foot high soffit at the Block 171 building's exit to L Street, representing holistic health in the form of a bio-compass of the Sacramento Valley and beyond, from the Sierra foothills to the Pacific coast.  The design, incorporating vital color representing spirit, creativity, healing, and elements of earth, air, fire, water, motion and light, the four seasons, sun and moon, the balance of cycles, is centered on Sacramento as a place where the rivers meet, creating a "Sacrament", a special place. 

The artists and their helpers spent eight weeks on site creating the mural.

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