Exhibition Images
The Writing on the Wall, contained overlapping bodies of work that focused on the cocktail of frailty and strength that alternately sustains and destroys our humanity. It is not a new idea. We have been drinking and swimming through this cocktail for centuries. I work in my local landscape, la frontera, the border between Mexico and the United States.
I hope that a group of portraits of my dear friend, Julián Cardona, provide some sense of his earnestness and of the intensity of our collaboration on them book, Abecedario de Juárez: An Illustrated Lexicon, that catalogues the memories, experiences, and invented words of the people of Ciudad Juárez when President Felipe Calderón sent 10,000 federal forces into Ciudad Juárez. Perpetrators of the ensuing rise in violence worked for the Mexican government, but in many cases they also labored for cartels.