Artist’s Vision Is To Make US-Mexico Border Fence Appear To Disappear
*The artist painted the border fence sky blue, and by doing that she created the illusion of a disappearing fence. It’s art, protest and hope. VL
By Jude Joffe-Block, Fronteras
The border fence dividing the U.S. and Mexico has long been a subject of debate and controversy. Now, artist Ana Teresa Fernandez is attempting to paint a stretch of the border fence in Nogales, Sonora, so it looks like it is no longer there.
Fernandez plans to start painting on Tuesday morning. The project is an expansion of an earlier installation Fernandez did on the Tijuana border fence.
[pullquote]“I just had this epiphany, of like, you know I can bring the sky down and erase it, just using paint and painting it sky blue.”[/pullquote]Fernandez was born in Mexico, moved to San Diego as a child, and grew up going back and forth between the two countries. She heard story after story of migrants who lost their lives trying to cross the border, and of families divided by it.
She came to resent the fence.
“For me it just became this thing where I just want to kick it, spit at it and hit it. But I realized that wasn’t really going to do much,” Fernandez said. “And so I took what was my weapon, which is paint.”
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[Photo courtesy of Ana Teresa Fernandez, Remezcla]
