Erasure interrogates the strategic destruction of identity documents as a condition for entry into the United States. The project documents and reassembles fragments of passports found at a single point of convergence along the US/Mexico border, representing individuals from more than ten countries across several continents. Each document was burned or partially destroyed immediately prior to crossing. Seen collectively, these remnants map a global network of migration converging at this border, while exposing the structural violence of neoliberal policies that force movement under precarious conditions.
Installation view at Pidgin Palace, three 20x30” diptychs, Corten steel frames, Tucson, AZ, 2025