Borders: a Concept and a Divider

This piece consists of two books bonded together to create one. One is in English, while the other is in Spanish. In this book I explore the way undocumented immigrants are portrayed and all the harmful and ignorant statements made about them. All adjacent pages are connected. On the left page, I present a stereotypical statement while on the right page I describe why the statement on the left is not only wrong but also harmful. There are two beginnings and two endings to the book. Viewers are able to start from which ever beginning they feel comfortable with. The cover of the book contains two maps. The black outline is a map of the world as we know it today, with all its borders and separations. It is contrasted by the red outline which is the map of Pangea, the super continent that existed millions of years ago when the world was together, before it began to shift and move apart.

December, 2016.

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