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Estamos Buscando A is a multi-faceted series that explores and contemplates the migrant experience in Mexico along the U.S. - Mexico border through various practices, including site-specific public art installation, text and photo-based personal narratives, a gallery-based border wall installation, a migrant guide photo book and select border wall fragment works, spanning a 16-year period from 2002 - 2017.

In the summer of 2005, a Marine Corp unit just back from Fallujah and the Iraq War was charged with completing the demolition of the original 14 miles of primary fencing that was constructed between 1990 and 1993 from the Pacific Ocean inland to divide the two countries. On the final day of the demolition, nearly 3,000 lbs of this fencing was salvaged, enough to construct a border wall that could measure approximately 10 feet high x 60 feet long that could be mounted on a gallery wall or as a free-standing wall.

Eight of these border wall fragments have been used for smaller unique installation works that have been acquired for collections and most recently exhibited for the Transborder Biennial 2018 | Bienal Transfronteriza 2018 at the El Paso Museum of Art in Texas and the Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez in Mexico.

Tijuana, U.S-Mexico Border, Mexico, 2002/2018 has been selected for the upcoming exhibition, Where We Stand, in conjunction with the Medium Festival of Photography at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and will be on view from March 28 - April 19, 2026.

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Once known as the “petroleum graveyard,” Beneath the Dirt of Great Men exposes the carbon landscape in the Permian Basin of Southeast New Mexico and West Texas. With climate change, land use, and energy policy at the forefront of our national consciousness, the work contemplates the extraction of crude oil and natural gas in the largest reserve of these natural resources in the United States.

jdc Fine Art will present select framed book plate prints to be shown beside a copy of the limited edition artist book, which contains additional images of oil pump jacks and waste water evaporation ponds used in the fracking process along with fragmented text adapted from vintage oil and petroleum company advertisements, a summary statement, map and colophon. 

The Photography Show presented by AIPAD will be at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City from April 22 - 26, 2026.