Surface Tension

Focusing on three border zones – the Israel-Palestine Border, the US-Mexico border, and the former Berlin wall, Surface Tension explores the multiple and conflicted narratives of these places. Wall and fences, embodiments of social and political oppositions, mark and divide the physical landscape. Surface Tension fuses various methods for capturing digital images and incorporates the juxtaposition of multiple photographic images arranged in diptychs, triptychs, or configured in installations, to explore the complexity of these histories. Working with and combining images from three border zones, this work conflates these tensions and questions the ethics of conflict through an open-ended narrative structure.