Dear World, I am off to Sonora this sunday--- to the borderlands--- to create, dream and collaborate alongside Artist Juna Laurel Rosales Muller. I begin to center my heart for the landscape I am about to enter, for the energy I am about to fill my life with. The U.S.-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates the first and bleeds...Borders are set up to define places that are safe and unsafe, to distinguish us from them. A border is a dividing line, a narrow strip long a steep edge. A borderland is vague and undetermined place created by the emotional residue of an unnatural boundary. It is a constant state of transition. -G. Anzaldua Health and wildflowers, V. Terán, a young mestiza Mending Patriotism is a series of quilts made from clothing cast off by migrants attempting to cross Mexicos Sonoran desert towards the U.S. border. The project aims to provide a space for learning and exchange around the issues of border-crossing, human migration, and national identity. Quilts have historically been used to signify safe houses, most notably on the Underground Railroad. In our modern day, how do people seeking refuge identify allies? In what ways can we as individuals participate in nation-wide concerns? What is our collective vision of a patriotism we feel comfortable owning? mendingpatriotism.blogspot/
Posted on: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 05:29:36 +0000
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