Artist’s Statement
Our horizons and oceans are symbols of expansiveness and travel but also references to colonialism, transport of enslaved peoples, materialism, pollution, and over-fishing. How freighted are we with our concepts of nature, consumption, capitalism, and democracy? Let’s become unmoored from our unworkable systems and structures, become fluid, flexible, green!
Fluid Boundaries Erase Borders was made as part of my Exhortations on the Ground series, created while the nation’s leader ignited hate and divisiveness, racism, prejudice; imprisoning parents and children seeking to come to this country. We have imposed artificial boundaries on the land taken by force from native peoples. We create artificial boundaries between citizen and non-citizen. We are held captive by internalized expectations of behavior, group and gender conformity. Can we reimagine those boundaries?