Border Triptychs
16 images Created 11 Jun 2010
This series began in 2007 as a protest against GW Bush's border fence as it was called at the time.
Does this keep immigrants out - our us in? It's a horrific metaphor for conflicted border.
I could not conceive the America of immigrants - my own people landed in the midwest in the early 1900's - now rejecting immigrants. These photos showed the absurdity of the wall a decade before Trump. It has now become a national nightmare as we separate immigrant families and become a land of fear rather than a welcoming nation.
Photos of the border picture the El Paso/Cd. Juarez boundary in a new set of images uses the triptych form to amplify the story. These 15 triptychs are part of a larger and ongoing work to image the Rio Grande / Rio Bravo in contemporary terms. Selections from this series created in January 2010 have been exhibited at The People's Gallery, City Hall, Austin Texas; The Texas National 2010 Show at Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, Texas; The 24th Annual Member's Show of the Texas Photographic Society at Baylor University, Waco, Texas; and the 28th Annual Member's Show at the Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas.
Here are triptychs of the border wall.
Does this keep immigrants out - our us in? It's a horrific metaphor for conflicted border.
I could not conceive the America of immigrants - my own people landed in the midwest in the early 1900's - now rejecting immigrants. These photos showed the absurdity of the wall a decade before Trump. It has now become a national nightmare as we separate immigrant families and become a land of fear rather than a welcoming nation.
Photos of the border picture the El Paso/Cd. Juarez boundary in a new set of images uses the triptych form to amplify the story. These 15 triptychs are part of a larger and ongoing work to image the Rio Grande / Rio Bravo in contemporary terms. Selections from this series created in January 2010 have been exhibited at The People's Gallery, City Hall, Austin Texas; The Texas National 2010 Show at Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, Texas; The 24th Annual Member's Show of the Texas Photographic Society at Baylor University, Waco, Texas; and the 28th Annual Member's Show at the Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas.
Here are triptychs of the border wall.
