Tierra Brava – Volumes Nº1 – Nº3 (1996 – 2010) includes 75 photographs that reveal the exploration of a personal psychological space within the color of a place mired in contradictions; the U.S. – Mexico border.
With the support of a Fulbright-Garcia Robles Fellowship in 1997 and drawing inspiration from the pulp comic of the same name, Tierra Brava – Volumes Nº1 – Nº3 traverses a personal psychological space within the color of a place mired in contradictions; the U.S. – Mexico border. It is a place that is in a constant search for its own sense of identity, juggling the traditions of culture and history of the interior with the pleasures and promises of prosperity and a better life of its northern neighbor. It is not Mexico and not the United States, but rather something and somewhere in-between.
25 – 14 x 11 inch archival pigment prints on Canson Prestige II
1 map sheet identifying photograph locations with tipped-in ephemeral materials (letter and photograph from ex-girlfriend) on Canson Rag Photographique – opens to 14 x 22 inches
1 index sheet on Canson Prestige II
Bookcloth covered book binders boards with 2 tipped-in images on covers
Tri-fold binding with four-flap archival folder