#susan_harbagepage

U.S.- Mexico Border Project

My current work, The Border Project is an intervention—at once aesthetic, archaeological, and archival—into the spaces and objects associated with the great migration north across the Rio Grande and into the United States. Since 2007 I have photographed the possessions left behind by migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexican Border near Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Mexico and west to Laredo and Eagle Pass, Texas. Migrants swim across the Rio Grande and then quickly change from wet clothes into dry clothes and disappear into the general population. If stopped by the Border Patrol, they are asked to empty their pockets of everything non-essential. I see the resultant personal items strewn along the border as symbols or relics not only of a changing culture but also of a longing for a better life, security for one’s family, a safer environment.

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