#international border

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The Norwegian-Russian border

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oh hai Buffalo

[danielrxm]

‘’LA FRONTERA EN DONDE DEBE VIVIR DIOS’’.

Al borde del Río Bravo se concentra un escenario sociocultural donde el intercambio de idiomas, tradiciones, costumbres e historia unen a las ciudades de Juárez y El Paso en una especie de lazo de hermandad histórico, en el que por siglos ambas partes del río han compartido anécdotas, historias, y un rico intercambio cultural que hacen de esto una de las fronteras más dinámicas y conectadas del mundo, un lugar en donde el cálido calor del desierto que las rodea no se compara al de su gente, y el apacible sonido de las aguas del Río Bravo no las divide, sino que las unen en su gente, en su historia, en su amistad y el eterno cariño que se tienen. La presente fotografía no sólo enmarca el mural dedicado a Juan Gabriel sobre la Av. Juárez y con el que se le da la bienvenida a todos aquellos que cruzan de un lado del río a otro, sino que también enmarca sus palabras; en palabras del Divo de Juárez, ‘’es la frontera en donde debe vivir Dios’’.

[route22ny]

The Ambassador Bridge, seen from Michigan Central Station, Detroit

Photo by the Detroit Free Press, 2019

[uispeccoll]

#ArtsyFriday

Towards a Just Landscape is one of my favorite artists’ books; it encapsulates the ability and significance artists’ books have to be both powerful and beautiful objects. Beyond it’s beautifully rendered aesthetics of wilderness and the 49th Parallel, a 20-foot clear-cut section along the US-Canada International Boundary, it discusses issues of justice, history, identity, and political and ecological relationships with land. This assemblage was created by Anne Covell originally as a University of Iowa Center for the Book MFA thesis in 2014. Housed in a clamshell case finished with cork paper, Towards a Just Landscape incorporates a folded panoramic map, printed postcards, a saddle-sewn book with interleaved pages and excerpts from Nicholas Brown’s Ph.D. dissertation “Landscape, justice, and politics of indigeneity”, ‘A field guide to new growth’ in the style of a botanical guide, printed elements, and a 20 foot piece of twine. The ethereal transparency of paper in the interleaved book allows for images and text to be seen from a distance, with texts and traces of tepees and mountain peaks ghosting behind each other; this quote from Brown’s dissertation resonates throughout the piece and, if we listen, it’s readers: 

“Yet specters will always penetrate a permeable membrane. If we wish to seek justice beneath the facade of peace, it is our responsibility to allow ourselves to be haunted by them.” 

--Laura 

x-Collection N7433.4 .C647 T69 2015

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When your morning hike consists of crossing the international border into Montana 🏔

[uvba]

FRIENDSHIP BRIDGE - Brazil and Paraguay - Border 

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Border fence between Norway (left) and Finland (right) at Neiden