#borderpolitics

[seattleru]

An invisible wall on the WA–BC border has quietly blocked nearly 1.2M Canadian trips to the U.S. 🇨🇦🚫🇺🇸 Fear, outrage and politics are reshaping cross-border life, tourism and trade. How did it get this bad—and what breaks the stalemate? https://hyperlocalnews.website/seaen/trumps-invisible-wall-has-stopped-a-million.html

[alwaysundercommoning]

“White powder”  “el polvo” DDT

[jacobhleveton-blog1]

With the Mexico-US Borderlands occupying the center of news, I’ve returned to thinking about Blane de St. Croix’s drawings and installation landscapes recently—especially Broken Landscapes.

Monumental sculpture assumes the form of miniaturization of border ecologies. Deep geological time—represented by the artist through layers of sediment—contrasts, and even contradicts, an artificial political, human imposition of a fence in landscape space. 

St. Croix’s making the large-scale and threatening precarity of a 3,000-mile border fence into the affective yet defamiliarized site of contemplation of the small through the installation continues to be brilliant work that I think worth sharing and further thought.

Blane de St. Croix, Broken Landscapes II, 2010. Wood, plywood, foam, plastic, paint, branches, dirt, and other natural materials, Image links to artist’s website (https://blanedestcroix.com/2013/01/15/broken-landscape-ii/)

[traredonphotoart-blog]

Lights along the US-Mexico border fence near Bisbee, Arizona

Way Out West Photo Series

TRaredon Photography