The tire/chain is a device used by the border patrol to smooth dirt roads by dragging it behind a vehicle in order to make footprints of border crossers more visible. This work was informed by old photos of men wearing collars.
Original U.S.-Mexico stone border markers near Lochiel, Arizona.
The image of the concertina wire is from the border wall at Nogales.
The image on the figure’s back is of a metal plate on top of the border wall at Lochiel, Arizona.
Barbed wire at the border wall.
The metal spikes around the neck is a device used by the border patrol near Lochiel, Arizona to put grooves in dirt roads by dragging it behind a vehicle in order to make footsteps of border crossers more visible.
The bars are part of the border wall at Nogales at the Arizona-Mexico border.
The “necklace” is an evidence tape used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection along the Arizona-Mexico border at Sasabe.
The vertical “spikes” are shadows of the border wall at Sasabe on the Arizona-Mexico border.
The cable around the neck is used to lock down steel bars to concrete roadways near Lochiel, Arizona.
