Junkculture

Mexican-American artist Ana Teresa Fernandez has long been fascinated by the U.S.-Mexico border as well as identity and gender. For her performance art project titled "Erasing the Border", Fernandez used a fifteen foot ladder and a spray paint gun to paint a portion of the metal wall that separates Playas de Tijuana and San Diego’s Border Field State Park in a light blue hue to camouflage it against the sky. "The idea behind the project is to blur the border fence into the landscape giving the impression that a portion of it is missing," she explains, "an illusion of a hole in the wall, where your imagination is able to cross between these two countries freely."