Charcoal Rubbings of International Boundary Marker 1, El Paso TX, 2018
Location: N31.77559, W-106.5245
Item Number: BLA 140219-01
Description/Materials: Two Framed Charcoal Rubbings on Paper
Date Collected: March 2018
Name of Contributor: Gabriella Willenz, Sophia Arbara, Sophia Sobko
A. What cross-border connection(s) does this object represent?
Two hundred and seventy-six monuments pepper the U.S.-Mexico land boundary from El Paso west to the Pacific Ocean.
The easternmost point of the land boundary is marked by International Boundary Marker 1, a 12 foot tall, four-sided marker erected in 1855 by a joint U.S.-Mexico team of land surveyors.
The artists’ act of traveling to the monument, employing a grave-rubbing transfer technique, and transporting the resulting facsimile invites
interrogation of what is both gained and lost through processes of surveying, research, reproduction, and representation.
Item Number: BLA 140219-01
Description/Materials: Two Framed Charcoal Rubbings on Paper
Date Collected: March 2018
Name of Contributor: Gabriella Willenz, Sophia Arbara, Sophia Sobko
A. What cross-border connection(s) does this object represent?
Two hundred and seventy-six monuments pepper the U.S.-Mexico land boundary from El Paso west to the Pacific Ocean.
The easternmost point of the land boundary is marked by International Boundary Marker 1, a 12 foot tall, four-sided marker erected in 1855 by a joint U.S.-Mexico team of land surveyors.
The artists’ act of traveling to the monument, employing a grave-rubbing transfer technique, and transporting the resulting facsimile invites
interrogation of what is both gained and lost through processes of surveying, research, reproduction, and representation.
