This new body of work that emerges from travel undertaken as embodied research, moving through sites shaped by displacement, ecological stress, and geopolitical conflict, tracing how movement across land is both compelled and constrained. 

As part of this research, I traveled to the Arizona–Mexico border in 2025-26, documenting a stretch of the border wall east and west of Nogales. The journey itself became a method: walking, observing, and recording the terrain where the desert, infrastructure, and surveillance systems converge. The wall cuts across hillsides, interrupts animal paths, fragments ecosystems, and imposes a rigid geometry onto a landscape defined by fluidity and seasonal change. It is simultaneously monumental and banal, an everyday presence that radically reshapes how land is inhabited, crossed, and imagined. 

The scale and violence of this intervention are difficult to translate through a single photographic image. In response, I began cutting, splicing, and weaving my photographs by hand. This process fractures the original documentary view and reassembles it into a composite field, where sky, vegetation, steel, shadow, and ground interlace. The woven structure echoes both textiles and barriers, evoking labor, repair, and containment, while refusing a fixed or singular perspective. 

Through this act of weaving, the natural and built environments collapse into one another. The border wall no longer reads as a discrete object but becomes entangled with clouds, hills, and desert growth, suggesting a future landscape shaped by accumulation, disruption, and forced movement. These images function as speculative maps, records of travel through contested terrain and meditations on how borders, both visible and invisible, reorder space, memory, and the possibility of passage.