Other Border Wall Project - Creative Resistance to Borders since 2017
A collaboration with artists/designers Leah Patgorski and Tereneh Idia
Original drawings submitted to the Department of Homeland Security as a 10-page PDF for their ‘Other Border Wall’ open-call for designs
Our proposal was picked up by the media and went viral on major news networks including NPR, CNN, and Hyperallergic. This prompted us to remain in-step with the Trump administattions anti-immigrant rhetoric and push to build the wall, and we have since gone on to do many more projects, initiatives, a podcast, partnerships with artists in Laredo, TX, and other creative engagements that advocate for building bridges over walls.
2017-2021
MATERTERA, The Sisters of the Mothers
Artist Book with R Press
Lithographs printed on hand dyed Torinoko Paper
Silkscreened title and colophon
Accordion Book
11 x 11 x 1/4 inches
Begun in 2013, Printed in 2020
MATERTERA, The Sisters of the Mothers
Artist Book with R Press
Lithographs printed on hand dyed Torinoko Paper
Silkscreened title and colophon
Accordion Book
11 x 11 x 1/4 inches
Begun in 2013, Printed in 2020
The Spine Tree Who Cried For One Whole Year
Carved Loblolly Pine Tree, clay, brick, and rock from Southeastern Virginia
14’ x 10”x 10”
2020-2021
Blueprint Of The Future
Carved and painted plaster
16.75”x 15.25”x 1”
2020
Our Streets
Carved and painted plaster in wooden frame
11”x14”x1”
2020-2021
Building Blox - Part One
Carved and painted plaster in wooden frame
11” x 14” x 1”
2020-2021
Her-E’s Feet
Carved soapstone model for larger sculptural work
4” x 3” x 1.5” each
2021
Her-E for the Garden
Red clay model for larger sculptural work
10” x 8” x 5”
2021
Wildflower Guardians: Before and After
Digital collage for series of site-specific installations that take pre-existing lawns and transform them into wildflower patches with one of my sculptures of “Her-E” included. This is a new body of work that I am building now and will take me the next several years to fully realize and launch.
Sizes will vary. This rendering includes approximately 1/2 acre of wildflowers with a 5’ sculpture.
2021
My Healing Garden - View from Outside the Gate in Early Morning
Grown from seed: Yarrow, marigold, moonflower, morning glory, kale, motherwort, nettles, brown Russian cucumbers, red peppers, flax, sage, summer squash, swan gourd, French pumpkin, basil, cosmos, calendula, zinnia, elecampagne, marshmallow, lavender, strawflower, wildflower mix, milkweed (swamp and butterfly); Purchased from local native plant nursery: Blue False Indigo, Slender Goldenrod, Little Joe Pye, Eastern Rose Mallow, Rattlesnake Master, Common Sneezeweed, Evening Primrose, Golden Ragwort, Narrow Leaf Mt. Mint , Blue Vervain; handmade wattle fence with trees from the land; biodiversity of species including bees, wasps, worms, birds.
25’ x 42’ x 12’
2020 - 2021
My Healing Garden - View from Inside
Grown from seed: Yarrow, marigold, moonflower, morning glory, kale, motherwort, nettles, brown Russian cucumbers, red peppers, flax, sage, summer squash, swan gourd, French pumpkin, basil, cosmos, calendula, zinnia, elecampagne, marshmallow, lavender, strawflower, wildflower mix, milkweed (swamp and butterfly); Purchased from local native plant nursery: Blue False Indigo, Slender Goldenrod, Little Joe Pye, Eastern Rose Mallow, Rattlesnake Master, Common Sneezeweed, Evening Primrose, Golden Ragwort, Narrow Leaf Mt. Mint , Blue Vervain; handmade wattle fence with trees from the land; biodiversity of species including bees, wasps, worms, birds.
25’ x 42’ x 12’
2020 - 2021
Following Her-E in Now Time (821)
Series of drawings of this character Her-E that will then act as blueprints/designs to translate into sculptures for outdoor site-specific installations with wildflowers, as Wildflower Guardians
Graphite on paper
12” x 9”
2021
Following Her-E in Now Time (816)
Series of drawings of this character Her-E that will then act as blueprints/designs to translate into sculptures for outdoor site-specific installations with wildflowers, as Wildflower Guardians
Graphite on paper
12” x 9”
2021
Following Her-E in Now Time (901)
Series of drawings of this character Her-E that will then act as blueprints/designs to translate into sculptures for outdoor site-specific installations with wildflowers, as Wildflower Guardians
Graphite on paper
12” x 9”
2021