Naturalized Borders (to Gloria) is a land art and community-based project, including a 100-foot-long line of indigenous crops (corn, beans, and squash, known as “the three sisters”) planted in the shape of the U.S.-Mexico border line on the Bard College Farm. 

The 8 month-long project, which began in April 2019, is on display here in the form of documentation from the planting, harvesting, and sharing of the crop. I developed workshops and exercises and community events  to reimagine and embody one's relationship to the border.  Continuing the legacy of Chicana feminist writer Gloria E. Anzaldúa, the work seeks to unearth histories of immigration, labor rights, borders, land sovereignty, and systemic oppression.