Pumpa Monumental, FBA Project/El Paso –2009 It ain’t all war and drugs and deals. Or is it? Right here, in the midst of it all is…this! Who made this? Chinese hands? Sweat shop Haitian hands? Don’t tell me North Carolina hands! They did wingtips, right? Who will end up with this radical pump? Where will they wear it […]
Woman of Lomas del Poleo, Juarez — 2009
Tres niños before The Grid, June 2009 Lomas del Poleo/Juarez, Chihuahua/Mexico June 20, 2009 Lomas del Poleo. The battle goes on. More people leave. People fight to stay. A mean strip of ten lane highway has snaked its way through Lomas del Poleo (see previous posts or Google it). The Developers got what they needed and left […]
Quincineara, Segundo barrio, El Paso — 2009 Remember? Joy? Fifteen and delirious, defiant and non-idealogical, optimistic and uncertain, determined and hesitant, at times wildly free and untamed. Quinceañera.
Family in Segundo barrio, El Paso — 2009 Thanksgiving Day. Summer of 2009. I see it every day. That other day, the one in November, I guess it’s in there somewhere. Eating and stopping the world and traveling and the whole schmeer. That’s thankfulness, right. What is the word for grinch in Thanksgiving-ese? I see thanks every day in […]
