http://www.nathangibbs.com/2007/04/06/public-art-at-tijuana-border-crossing/ border life, art, photography, cultural critique Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:56:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.nathangibbs.com/2007/04/06/public-art-at-tijuana-border-crossing/comment-page-1/#comment-10244 Global Voices Online » Mexico: Tijuana: “Between a Window and a Door” Sat, 14 Apr 2007 01:08:27 +0000 http://www.nathangibbs.com/2007/04/06/public-art-at-tijuana-border-crossing/#comment-10244 [...] Nathan Gibbs on Oscar Ortega’s sculpture “Entre Ventana y Puerta” or “Between a Window and a Door” in Tijuana: “He explained the title as a description of Tijuana’s physical (and perhaps psychological) situation. It’s an incredibly transited city, but has no seaport, making its coastline only a “window.” The “door” refers to the U.S. border — a door locked for many. The piece, like the city, is rich with layered symbols: the hand of Mexican labor, cars circle the base endlessly, the round indigenous blocks carved with the men’s bathroom figure, the jumbled mosaic like the residential architecture covering Tijuana’s hillsides.” Share This [...] [...] Nathan Gibbs on Oscar Ortega’s sculpture “Entre Ventana y Puerta” or “Between a Window and a Door” in Tijuana: “He explained the title as a description of Tijuana’s physical (and perhaps psychological) situation. It’s an incredibly transited city, but has no seaport, making its coastline only a “window.” The “door” refers to the U.S. border — a door locked for many. The piece, like the city, is rich with layered symbols: the hand of Mexican labor, cars circle the base endlessly, the round indigenous blocks carved with the men’s bathroom figure, the jumbled mosaic like the residential architecture covering Tijuana’s hillsides.” Share This [...]

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]]> http://www.nathangibbs.com/2007/04/06/public-art-at-tijuana-border-crossing/comment-page-1/#comment-9944 Fred Clark Sun, 08 Apr 2007 15:55:56 +0000 http://www.nathangibbs.com/2007/04/06/public-art-at-tijuana-border-crossing/#comment-9944 Excellent writing. I will be adding this spot to my links. Thanks. Excellent writing. I will be adding this spot to my links. Thanks.

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