MEXUS re-imagines the continental border between the United States and Mexico without the line. MEXUS dissolves the border into a bioregion whose shape is defined by the eight binational watershed systems bisected by the wall. MEXUS also exposes other systems and flows across this bioregional territory: tribal nations; protected lands; croplands; urban crossings, many more informal ones, 15 million people, and more.
NATION AGAINST NATURE
Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman, 2017.
The conflicts we experience locally between nation and nature are reproduced again and again along the entire trajectory of the continental border between the US and Mexico. Aerial photos documenting precise moments along the trajectory of the continental border between the US and Mexico when the border wall collides with natural systems – nation against nature — illustrating powerfully what dumb nineteenth-century sovereignty looks like when its “hits the ground” in a complex bioregion.