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Reconquista // Truth or Consequences, NM
Based in Truth or Consequences, a popular hot springs town in New Mexico, this project is about reclaiming and continuing a story once interrupted by spanish colonization. This project creates a space for BIPOC people of New Mexico to bask in the power of the indigenous legacy of TEK, cultural interconnectivity, and a place to celebrate the fluidity of identity as a counteraction to physical borders.
SITE PLAN
This border instillation allows visitors to physically move through Corten posts, which allude to the border between Mexico and the United States. A border state, after the Mexican-American war, New Mexico saw the construction of a border. Relationships between indigenous communities were disrupted, much like the Spanish use of the Camino Real interrupted the system of indigenous networks.
The borders will have laser cut picture narratives on them, about stories of the different identities in New Mexico and it’s history.
Border Installation
