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Lotería-Tercera Tabla
title Lotería-Tercera Tabladescription Carmen Lomas Garza, Lotería-Tercera Tabla, 1972, color etching on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool and the Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program, 1995.25.3, © 1972, Carmen Lomas Garzaartist/creator Lomas Garza, Carmensubject Trumpet Umbrella Drum Ladder Deer Skeleton Eagle Bird Shoe Butterfly Hat Hammer Ruins Temple Container Lion Fishingcontributor Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) -
Buildings At Old Fort Davis - Fort Davis, Texas
title Buildings At Old Fort Davis - Fort Davis, Texasdescription This photograph shows four two-story buildings in front of the rocky cliff of a mountain. In the foreground, there is an area covered with scrub and what looks like an unpaved road and telephone poles in front of the buildings. The buildings to the far left and right look a bit weathered and old, but could still be in use and the one near the center has a pickup truck parked outside. The next building to the right appears to be abandoned and is sagging and falling apart; it looks as though it is made of wood although the others seem to be brick.artist/creator Unknowncontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
Photograph of Old Building
title Photograph of Old Buildingdescription Photograph of an old brick building. Part of the wall in the front of the photograph appears to have disintegrated into a pile of dirt and rock. There are several windows along either side of the building and there is a very small porch at one end. There also appears to be the remains of a second structure off to the right. In the background, a rocky hill covered in desert brush rises up behind the building.artist/creator Unknowncontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
[Photograph of Ruins of Old Hospital in Hospital Canyon
title [Photograph of Ruins of Old Hospital in Hospital Canyondescription Photograph of several old brick buildings which are clearly unused and dilapidated with roofs that are sagging and disintegrating. There are at least two separate buildings in the foreground and appear to be several more in the background. The buildings are near a dirt road and surrounded by desert scrub and trees.artist/creator Hunter'Ssubject Architecture Business, Economics And Finance - Medicine Landscape And Nature Davis Mountain State Park (Tex.) Hospitals Desert Ruinscontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
My Land, My Heritage, My Hope: Slide 74
title My Land, My Heritage, My Hope: Slide 74description Photograph of stone ruins surrounded by desert brush near Marfa, Texas. The image accompanied a written speech, with the caption: "Because of the presence of the U.S. Army, and help provided by the Texas Rangers and Border Patrol, many raids were prevented. Still, ranchers and their families were slaughtered and their stock stolen" (pp. 8-9).artist/creator Unknownsubject Places - United States - Texas - Presidio County Stone Buildings Architecture - Buildings Ruinscontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
My Land, My Heritage, My Hope: Slide 68
title My Land, My Heritage, My Hope: Slide 68description Photograph of partial ruins in abandoned Shafter, Texas. Mountains are visible in the background. The image accompanied a written speech, with the caption: About twenty-three million dollars worth of silver was extracted by 1942 when the price of silver dropped, and mining was no longer profitable. Cinnabar, source of mercury, was mined and processed at Terlingua for many years" (p. 8).artist/creator Unknowncontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
Shafter ghost town
title Shafter ghost towndescription Photograph of a series of partial ruins and lots in abandoned Shafter, Texas. Mountains are visible in the background. The image accompanied a written speech, with the caption: "Once this ghost town, Shafter, was the producer of an important source of income, silver" (p. 7).artist/creator Unknownsubject Mining Towns Ghost Towns Places - United States - Texas - Presidio County Landscape And Nature Ruinscontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
Fort Leaton ruins in Big Bend
title Fort Leaton ruins in Big Benddescription Photograph of a stone or adobe building that is part of the ruins of Fort Leaton ("El Fortin"), near Rio Grande, Texas. The image accompanied a written speech, with the caption: "Ben Leaton sold guns and ammunition to the Indians to kill the immigrants on the wagon trains. He then gave aid and shelter to the same immigrants at 'El Fortin.' He was called the 'Noble Desperado'" (p. 4).artist/creator Edwards, Nancysubject Fort Leaton Structures Places - United States - Texas - Presidio County Military And War - Forts Ruins El Fortincontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
My Land, My Heritage, My Hope: Slide 37
title My Land, My Heritage, My Hope: Slide 37description Photograph of Fort Leaton ruins in the Big Bend desert, near Presidio, Texas. Several wood support beams of varying lengths support the wall structure. A stone marker near the photograph's left quadrant describes the structure. The image accompanied a written speech, with the caption: "The mission was successful, and Christianized many of the tribes until the Padres were called back from this wilderness in the eighteenth century" (pp. 3-4).artist/creator Edwards, Nancycontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
Wide angle view of Presidio ruins
title Wide angle view of Presidio ruinsdescription Photograph of ruins in Big Bend desert. Several bushes and cacti are visible in the foreground. The image accompanied a written speech, with the caption: "Ben Leaton rebuilt the mission when he came to the Big Bend in 1848" (pp. 3-4).artist/creator Unknownsubject Architecture Places - United States - Texas - Presidio County Big Bend Stone Buildings Religion - Missions Ruinscontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
Ruins of Presidio structure
title Ruins of Presidio structuredescription Photograph of intact ruins in the Presidio desert; the structure is a long rectangle with a square opening. The image accompanied a written speech, with the caption: "El Apostol Santiago built, with Indian labor, a mission on the north side of the Rio Grande in 1684" (p. 3).artist/creator Unknowncontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
Several ruins in Presidio
title Several ruins in Presidiodescription Photograph of the remains of several stone buildings that are part of the remaining ruins of a Presidio ranch. The ruins are next to a road lined with small posts, visible in the lower-right corner, and desert mountains are visible in the background. The image accompanied a written speech, with the caption: "These are the ruins of the ranch house of another West Texas settler whom the land defeated. Manuel Musquiz tried to homestead in the canyon near the present town of Ft. Davis in 1854. Continued Indian raids drove him back to the security of the East" (p. 4).artist/creator Unknownsubject Architecture Places - United States - Texas - Presidio County Stone Buildings Ruins Agriculture - Ranching - Ranchescontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
My Land, My Heritage, My Hope: Slide 44
title My Land, My Heritage, My Hope: Slide 44description Photograph of the ruins of a small stone fort that were part of a ranch in Presidio. The ruins are in a desert landscape and rocky mountains are visible in the background. The image accompanied a written speech, with the caption: "Besides farming, [John W. Spencer] ran several stores in Ojinaga and Presidio" (p. 4)artist/creator Unknownsubject Architecture Places - United States - Texas - Presidio County Stone Buildings Ruins Agriculture - Ranching - Ranchescontributor Portal to Texas History (TPTH) -
Untitled: Gold Leaf With Plumeria Bloomin In Bottom Of Abandoned Pool
title Untitled: Gold Leaf With Plumeria Bloomin In Bottom Of Abandoned Pooldescription Architecture and City Planning Centro Escolar Agua Caliente (Tijuana, Mexico) Scottish artist Anya Gallacio created two installations for inSITE94, one untitled piece located at Centro Escolar Agua Caliente, the other titled "Preserve: Maya/Preservación: maya" at the downtown location of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. Gallacio was drawn to the site of Agua Caliente because of its history: it was built in 1929 as a resort and casino for the rich who came there to escape and play. Having been abandoned for many years, the pool was showing signs of decay with missing tiles, cracks, and broken elements. Gallacio chose to cover these exposed areas with gold foil, referencing and revealing a sense of the pool's gilded past. At MCASD, Gallacio worked with the theme of natural transformation. The artist chose a space viewable from both inside the Museum and from the bookstore, and layered red gerbera daisies between two panes of glass to create a botanical stained glass that was inserted as a window space. Over the course of the exhibition the flowers decomposed, fading to grey and revealing their own life cycle. --inSITE94 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 04, Item 124) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Gallacio, Anya, 1963-subject Casinos Restoration Graffiti Resorts Swimming Pools Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Insite94 Gilding Renovation Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Ruinscontributor Calisphere -
Untitled: Gold Leaf With Fountain And Graffiti
title Untitled: Gold Leaf With Fountain And Graffitidescription Architecture and City Planning Centro Escolar Agua Caliente (Tijuana, Mexico) Scottish artist Anya Gallacio created two installations for inSITE94, one untitled piece located at Centro Escolar Agua Caliente, the other titled "Preserve: Maya/Preservación: maya" at the downtown location of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. Gallacio was drawn to the site of Agua Caliente because of its history: it was built in 1929 as a resort and casino for the rich who came there to escape and play. Having been abandoned for many years, the pool was showing signs of decay with missing tiles, cracks, and broken elements. Gallacio chose to cover these exposed areas with gold foil, referencing and revealing a sense of the pool's gilded past. At MCASD, Gallacio worked with the theme of natural transformation. The artist chose a space viewable from both inside the Museum and from the bookstore, and layered red gerbera daisies between two panes of glass to create a botanical stained glass that was inserted as a window space. Over the course of the exhibition the flowers decomposed, fading to grey and revealing their own life cycle. --inSITE94 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 04, Item 125) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Gallacio, Anya, 1963-subject Casinos Restoration Graffiti Ruins Resorts Swimming Pools Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Insite94 Gilding Renovation Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Fountainscontributor Calisphere -
The Jewel / In God We Trust: Junk Car Covered In Gold Leaf In Luxury Car Dealer Showroom
title The Jewel / In God We Trust: Junk Car Covered In Gold Leaf In Luxury Car Dealer Showroomdescription João Louro's project "The Jewel / In God We Trust" traces the inverted trajectory of the recycling dynamic that characterizes the border zone. His project begins with the selection of a European car recovered from a junkyard in Tijuana and transformed into a "jewel" through the addition of a skin of gold leaf. Once this trash object is transformed into a opulent gold sculpture it will be exhibited and auctioned in San Diego. Proceeds from the sale will be given to an elementary school in Tijuana and used to support visual art workshops for children, where students will be encouraged to add further layers of imagery to the paper money. --inSite_05 La Jolla, San Diego (Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 189, DVD 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Louro, Joãosubject Automobiles Junkyards Humor Junk Sculpture Sculpture (Visual Work) Consumers Automobile Showrooms Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Poverty Wealth Performance Art Recycling Parody Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Ruinscontributor Calisphere -
Untitled: Detail Of Gold Leaf And Graffiti
title Untitled: Detail Of Gold Leaf And Graffitidescription Architecture and City Planning Centro Escolar Agua Caliente (Tijuana, Mexico) Scottish artist Anya Gallacio created two installations for inSITE94, one untitled piece located at Centro Escolar Agua Caliente, the other titled "Preserve: Maya/Preservación: maya" at the downtown location of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. Gallacio was drawn to the site of Agua Caliente because of its history: it was built in 1929 as a resort and casino for the rich who came there to escape and play. Having been abandoned for many years, the pool was showing signs of decay with missing tiles, cracks, and broken elements. Gallacio chose to cover these exposed areas with gold foil, referencing and revealing a sense of the pool's gilded past. At MCASD, Gallacio worked with the theme of natural transformation. The artist chose a space viewable from both inside the Museum and from the bookstore, and layered red gerbera daisies between two panes of glass to create a botanical stained glass that was inserted as a window space. Over the course of the exhibition the flowers decomposed, fading to grey and revealing their own life cycle. --inSITE94 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 04, Item 126) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Casinos Restoration Graffiti Resorts Swimming Pools Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Insite94 Gilding Renovation Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Ruinscontributor Calisphere -
The Jewel / In God We Trust: Junk Car Covered In Gold Leaf In Luxury Car Dealer Showroom
title The Jewel / In God We Trust: Junk Car Covered In Gold Leaf In Luxury Car Dealer Showroomdescription João Louro's project "The Jewel / In God We Trust" traces the inverted trajectory of the recycling dynamic that characterizes the border zone. His project begins with the selection of a European car recovered from a junkyard in Tijuana and transformed into a "jewel" through the addition of a skin of gold leaf. Once this trash object is transformed into a opulent gold sculpture it will be exhibited and auctioned in San Diego. Proceeds from the sale will be given to an elementary school in Tijuana and used to support visual art workshops for children, where students will be encouraged to add further layers of imagery to the paper money. --inSite_05 La Jolla, San Diego (Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 189, DVD 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Louro, Joãosubject Automobiles Junkyards Humor Junk Sculpture Sculpture (Visual Work) Consumers Automobile Showrooms Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Poverty Wealth Performance Art Recycling Parody Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Ruinscontributor Calisphere -
The Jewel / In God We Trust: Junk Car Covered In Gold Leaf In Luxury Car Dealer Showroom: View From Street
title The Jewel / In God We Trust: Junk Car Covered In Gold Leaf In Luxury Car Dealer Showroom: View From Streetdescription João Louro's project "The Jewel / In God We Trust" traces the inverted trajectory of the recycling dynamic that characterizes the border zone. His project begins with the selection of a European car recovered from a junkyard in Tijuana and transformed into a "jewel" through the addition of a skin of gold leaf. Once this trash object is transformed into a opulent gold sculpture it will be exhibited and auctioned in San Diego. Proceeds from the sale will be given to an elementary school in Tijuana and used to support visual art workshops for children, where students will be encouraged to add further layers of imagery to the paper money. --inSite_05 La Jolla, San Diego (Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 189, DVD 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Louro, Joãosubject Automobiles Junkyards Humor Junk Sculpture Sculpture (Visual Work) Consumers Automobile Showrooms Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Poverty Wealth Performance Art Ferrari, S.P.A Recycling Parody Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Ruinscontributor Calisphere -
A Corner Of The World… Land: Detail Of Mural
title A Corner Of The World… Land: Detail Of Muraldescription Paintings Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 03, Item 254) Tijuana artist Oscar Ortega's project for inSITE94, "A Corner of a World ... Land/Una esquina de un mundo ... tierra" was a mural sited on an abandoned and collapsing building located just yards from the Pacific Ocean and the border fence at Playas de Tijuana. In 1994 the artist restored the mural, originally created in 1992, to reinvigorate its points of reference. According to Ortega, the mural illustrated a ship whose crew is facing the choice of either heading south or north all while having to repair and maintain the vessel for the voyage that ultimately lies ahead. --inSITE94 Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Ortega, Oscarsubject Restoration Boundaries Mexican-American Border Region Vessels Beaches Insite94 Murals (Any Medium) Painting (Image-Making) Voyages And Travels Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Ruinscontributor Calisphere -
The Jewel / In God We Trust: Junk Car Covered In Gold Leaf In Luxury Car Dealer Showroom
title The Jewel / In God We Trust: Junk Car Covered In Gold Leaf In Luxury Car Dealer Showroomdescription João Louro's project "The Jewel / In God We Trust" traces the inverted trajectory of the recycling dynamic that characterizes the border zone. His project begins with the selection of a European car recovered from a junkyard in Tijuana and transformed into a "jewel" through the addition of a skin of gold leaf. Once this trash object is transformed into a opulent gold sculpture it will be exhibited and auctioned in San Diego. Proceeds from the sale will be given to an elementary school in Tijuana and used to support visual art workshops for children, where students will be encouraged to add further layers of imagery to the paper money. --inSite_05 La Jolla, San Diego (Calif.) Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 189, DVD 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Louro, Joãosubject Automobiles Junkyards Humor Junk Sculpture Sculpture (Visual Work) Consumers Automobile Showrooms Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Poverty Receptions Performance Art Wealth Recycling Parody Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Ruinscontributor Calisphere -
A Corner Of The World… Land
title A Corner Of The World… Landdescription Paintings Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 03, Item 255) Tijuana artist Oscar Ortega's project for inSITE94, "A Corner of a World ... Land/Una esquina de un mundo ... tierra" was a mural sited on an abandoned and collapsing building located just yards from the Pacific Ocean and the border fence at Playas de Tijuana. In 1994 the artist restored the mural, originally created in 1992, to reinvigorate its points of reference. According to Ortega, the mural illustrated a ship whose crew is facing the choice of either heading south or north all while having to repair and maintain the vessel for the voyage that ultimately lies ahead. --inSITE94 Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Ortega, Oscarsubject Restoration Boundaries Mexican-American Border Region Vessels Beaches Insite94 Murals (Any Medium) Painting (Image-Making) Voyages And Travels Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Ruinscontributor Calisphere -
The Jewel / In God We Trust: Junk Car Covered In Gold Leaf At The Haudenschild Garage: Auction Night
title The Jewel / In God We Trust: Junk Car Covered In Gold Leaf At The Haudenschild Garage: Auction Nightdescription Haudenschild Garage, La Jolla, San Diego (Calif.) João Louro's project "The Jewel / In God We Trust" traces the inverted trajectory of the recycling dynamic that characterizes the border zone. His project begins with the selection of a European car recovered from a junkyard in Tijuana and transformed into a "jewel" through the addition of a skin of gold leaf. Once this trash object is transformed into a opulent gold sculpture it will be exhibited and auctioned in San Diego. Proceeds from the sale will be given to an elementary school in Tijuana and used to support visual art workshops for children, where students will be encouraged to add further layers of imagery to the paper money. --inSite_05 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 189, DVD 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Louro, Joãosubject Junkyards Auctions Junk Sculpture Recycling Automobiles Insite_05 Wealth Performance Art Humor Mexican-American Border Region Poverty Receptions Parody Sculpture (Visual Work) Consumers Garages Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Ruinscontributor Calisphere -
A Corner Of The World… Land
title A Corner Of The World… Landdescription Paintings Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 03, Item 256) Tijuana artist Oscar Ortega's project for inSITE94, "A Corner of a World ... Land/Una esquina de un mundo ... tierra" was a mural sited on an abandoned and collapsing building located just yards from the Pacific Ocean and the border fence at Playas de Tijuana. In 1994 the artist restored the mural, originally created in 1992, to reinvigorate its points of reference. According to Ortega, the mural illustrated a ship whose crew is facing the choice of either heading south or north all while having to repair and maintain the vessel for the voyage that ultimately lies ahead. --inSITE94 Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Ortega, Oscarsubject Restoration Boundaries Mexican-American Border Region Vessels Beaches Insite94 Murals (Any Medium) Painting (Image-Making) Voyages And Travels Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Ruinscontributor Calisphere -
The Jewel / In God We Trust: Junk Car Covered In Gold Leaf At The Haudenschild Garage: Auction Night
title The Jewel / In God We Trust: Junk Car Covered In Gold Leaf At The Haudenschild Garage: Auction Nightdescription Haudenschild Garage, La Jolla, San Diego (Calif.) João Louro's project "The Jewel / In God We Trust" traces the inverted trajectory of the recycling dynamic that characterizes the border zone. His project begins with the selection of a European car recovered from a junkyard in Tijuana and transformed into a "jewel" through the addition of a skin of gold leaf. Once this trash object is transformed into a opulent gold sculpture it will be exhibited and auctioned in San Diego. Proceeds from the sale will be given to an elementary school in Tijuana and used to support visual art workshops for children, where students will be encouraged to add further layers of imagery to the paper money. --inSite_05 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 189, DVD 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Louro, Joãosubject Junkyards Auctions Junk Sculpture Recycling Automobiles Insite_05 Wealth Performance Art Humor Mexican-American Border Region Poverty Receptions Parody Sculpture (Visual Work) Consumers Garages Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Ruinscontributor Calisphere -
Osmosis And Excess
title Osmosis And Excessdescription Aernout Mik has created a video entitled "Osmosis and Excess" that interweaves images of junkyards in Tijuana's urban periphery with fictional scenes depicting a local pharmacy inundated with mud. Used cars flow from the United States to Mexico where they are eventually broken down and discarded on Tijuana's barren hillsides. Moving in the other direction, cheap drugs flow from Tijuana into the United States. The abandoned cars and the medications represent different manifestations of excess. Both modify a landscape: one inner, the other outer. The film was shot on high-definition video in a panoramic format to best illustrate the depicted landscapes. The video was projected as an intervention in a public parking lot in downtown San Diego. Architecture and City Planning Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 193, DVD 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Mik, Aernoutsubject Landscapes (Representations) Panoramas Drugs Mud Political Art Tourism Children (People By Age Group) Film Stills Insite_05 Mexican-American Border Region Shopping Drugstores Ruins Border Art Information Signs Video Artcontributor Calisphere -
The Jewel / In God We Trust: Junk Car Covered In Gold Leaf At The Haudenschild Garage: Auction Night
title The Jewel / In God We Trust: Junk Car Covered In Gold Leaf At The Haudenschild Garage: Auction Nightdescription Haudenschild Garage, La Jolla, San Diego (Calif.) João Louro's project "The Jewel / In God We Trust" traces the inverted trajectory of the recycling dynamic that characterizes the border zone. His project begins with the selection of a European car recovered from a junkyard in Tijuana and transformed into a "jewel" through the addition of a skin of gold leaf. Once this trash object is transformed into a opulent gold sculpture it will be exhibited and auctioned in San Diego. Proceeds from the sale will be given to an elementary school in Tijuana and used to support visual art workshops for children, where students will be encouraged to add further layers of imagery to the paper money. --inSite_05 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image was extracted from a DVD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 189, DVD 01) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Louro, Joãosubject Junkyards Auctions Junk Sculpture Recycling Automobiles Insite_05 Wealth Performance Art Humor Mexican-American Border Region Poverty Receptions Parody Sculpture (Visual Work) Consumers Garages Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Ruinscontributor Calisphere -
A Corner Of The World… Land
title A Corner Of The World… Landdescription Paintings Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 03, Item 253) Tijuana artist Oscar Ortega's project for inSITE94, "A Corner of a World ... Land/Una esquina de un mundo ... tierra" was a mural sited on an abandoned and collapsing building located just yards from the Pacific Ocean and the border fence at Playas de Tijuana. In 1994 the artist restored the mural, originally created in 1992, to reinvigorate its points of reference. According to Ortega, the mural illustrated a ship whose crew is facing the choice of either heading south or north all while having to repair and maintain the vessel for the voyage that ultimately lies ahead. --inSITE94 Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.subject Restoration Boundaries Mexican-American Border Region Vessels Beaches Insite94 Murals (Any Medium) Painting (Image-Making) Voyages And Travels Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Ruinscontributor Calisphere -
Untitled: General View Of Empty Swimming Pool With Gold Leaf Patches
title Untitled: General View Of Empty Swimming Pool With Gold Leaf Patchesdescription Architecture and City Planning Centro Escolar Agua Caliente (Tijuana, Mexico) Scottish artist Anya Gallacio created two installations for inSITE94, one untitled piece located at Centro Escolar Agua Caliente, the other titled "Preserve: Maya/Preservación: maya" at the downtown location of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. Gallacio was drawn to the site of Agua Caliente because of its history: it was built in 1929 as a resort and casino for the rich who came there to escape and play. Having been abandoned for many years, the pool was showing signs of decay with missing tiles, cracks, and broken elements. Gallacio chose to cover these exposed areas with gold foil, referencing and revealing a sense of the pool's gilded past. At MCASD, Gallacio worked with the theme of natural transformation. The artist chose a space viewable from both inside the Museum and from the bookstore, and layered red gerbera daisies between two panes of glass to create a botanical stained glass that was inserted as a window space. Over the course of the exhibition the flowers decomposed, fading to grey and revealing their own life cycle. --inSITE94 Sculpture and Installations Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 04, Item 123) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.artist/creator Gallacio, Anya, 1963-subject Casinos Restoration Graffiti Resorts Swimming Pools Sculpture (Visual Work) Mexican-American Border Region Insite94 Gilding Renovation Installations (Visual Works) Border Art Ruinscontributor Calisphere