DESIERTO.ARTE.ARCHIVO

“In the desert, on the border, we are all in peril. Our terrain is flat and so is our ontology; flora, fauna, human beings, minerals, and even dreams are all precariously tethered to a river that seldom carries water and mostly serves as a stark reminder that there is no such thing as a free ride when the first and the third worlds collide. Our land is cheap, and so we sprawl across the sand like garter snakes digging up refuge, belly flat on the ground like a family of four that just heard gunshots across the street. Our relationship with our landscape is suspect at best, we know it is not meant to sustain us for long, yet we keep devising methods to extract capital from shifting dunes. We even dare extract poetry and pigments and aesthetic bemusement and acute contemplation; all to once again claim this desert as our own; all to once again claim ourselves as the desert’s own.”
—Dr. León De la Rosa-Carrillo, Art Department, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez