observing san diego-tijuana urban life 
Friendship Park is a half an acre plaza overlooking thePacific Ocean at the southwest corner of the continentalUnited States. The plaza sits atop Monument Mesa, a six acre state park property with restroom and picnic facilities, and part of a larger 800-acre Border Field State Park. At the center stands […]
I first saw Victor’s home last week when I was down in Tijuana’s Zona Norte. I was shooting photos of a mural my friends are working on at the corner of Niños Heroes and Avenida Internacional. And there it was, a mattress and a pile of personal belongings covered with […]
Protecting our public wildlands just got a little harder. On October 5, the U.S. House of Representatives’ Natural Resources Committee passed the unpopular National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act (HR 1505) by a vote of 26 to 17. The bill prohibits the Department of the Interior (DOI) and the United […]
Today I attended an event at Friendship Park for the first time since I moved to Tijuana. I saw so many of my dear friends over on the San Diego side–and in my excitement, I wanted to greet them with a hug, but the hug and kiss I wanted to give was […]
It’s official: the border wall has been liberated! According to a report posted today by Bryan Curtis on The Daily Beast, on April 1 in McAllen, Texas, street artist Ron English and a group of compatriots jumped out of their car, afixed a wheatpaste piece on the border wall, and […]
On June 14, 2011 an artist came to Tijuana to erase the border. And nobody seemed to mind. At around 11 am that Tuesday, artist Ana Teresa Fernández set an enormous ladder against the border wall separating Playas de Tijuana from San Diego’s Border Field State park, and using a […]
There’s another side to border security. And it has nothing to do with so-called spillover violence we hear about so often in the mainstream media. This is the story of the power artists can wield when they work with the community. A community mural painted on the south face of […]
Border fence intervention by artist Ana Teresa Fernandez
Cruces colgando en el muro en Playas de Tijuana
Mexican schoolchildren listen to a story about the thousands of migrants who have died trying to cross the border as workers from Casa de Migrante remove crosses from the border wall.