Suturing the Borderlands: Postcommodity and Indigenous Presence on the U.S.-Mexico Border

Abstract

Border CrossingsSuturing the Borderlands: Postcommodity and Indigenous Presence on the U.S.-Mexico Border 2 For three days in early October 2015, the art collective Postcommodity launched a temporary art installation that reached fifty feet above the desert and two miles across the U.S.-Mexico border.I watched that weekend as they anchored twenty-six heliumfilled balloons to the desert floor and let them ascend to create a visual and conceptual link between Douglas, Arizona and Agua Prieta, Sonora (fig.2).Each yellow, ten-foot diameter balloon had been inscribed with four sets of concentric circles-red, blue, black, and gray, with a black center-to form two pair of "scare eyes" (fig.3).

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