Light in Motion

Walking

I spent a large amount of my time between 2019 and through the pandemic walking various lengths of the Texas-Mexico border. The first steps began shortly after I moved to Far West Texas, a relocation that coincided roughly with the Pulse nightclub shooting. What started as personal exploration transformed into something more intentional after August 3, 2019, when a white supremacist drove to El Paso and opened fire at a Walmart, killing 23 people and injuring many others in an act of racist terrorism fueled by "great replacement" conspiracy theories. A friend and her students narrowly missed being caught in the violence.

This massacre, followed by two other mass shootings in the region over three years, then overlaid with the isolating fog of the pandemic, created a gravity I couldn't escape. My response was simple and physical: I walked. Not away, but toward and along the line that both divides and connects, a line that had become increasingly weaponized in political discourse.

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Thumbnail Image: James Ledbetter / Dallas Museum of Art