Borders Tattoo

Borders are a political construction, a human fabrication around geography, resources and power defined and re-defined through time by war, bloodshed and death. Borders are also a unifying construct that can bring people together and form deep bonds.

My community, my family, is comprised of individuals that live in places around the globe, across political and geographic borders. They are individuals that value creativity, risk, innovation. They are compassionate, hard-working people that want the best for themselves and for their friends and families.

In response to recent legislation and policy that seeks to reinforce the value of borders, I am inviting five individuals from diverse backgrounds to join me in becoming a part of a new community that re-contextualizes the notion of community relative to borders.

Each individual will have one word of the above quote permanently tattooed on their body. The artwork, the community, will only be complete when all six individuals are together to complete the narrative of the text of the quote. The work will be displayed in Long Beach in March and in Phoenix in April.

The quote is most likely attributable to a sage Native American early in the negotiation of the "resettlement" process in the formative years of U.S. history.

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