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| ROBERTO ROSIQUE |
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| Written by Simon | |
| Monday, 07 January 2008 | |
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Last year I took pictures of the border fence in Tijuana and the Monument to the people killed trying to cross the border.
I posted the story on my old radical migration blog in March 2007. Today the artist, Roberto Rosique , who built the Monument posted to the story. He has a blog and his border art is very good. Here is a reprint of the story I posted last year : This monument to those killed on the border was erected in 2005 in a traffic circle near the Tijuana Airport. It is about 50 feet from the border fence that has offended all of Mexico and killed so many people. It is important for us who live on the north side of this line, only because of the accident of birth, to try to understand the feeling of those who were born on the south side.
The plaque in front of the memorial says:
“IN MEMORIAM”
“The three elements that compose the sculpture (the obelisk, the crosses, and the color red,) possess a close symbolic relation with the events that occur on a daily basis on this border zone, controversial site, witness to infamous events that have culminated, in hundreds of occasions, with the death of our compatriots; those punished by poverty who only sought other options to improve their lives, and hopeful, believed in finding such in the neighboring country. The set of landmarks transformed into an obelisk, represent that ignominious divisive wall. The randomly placed crosses that penetrate the obelisk symbolize the suffering endured by any undocumented individual that ventures this sad odyssey. The color red, synonymous with violence, pain, and injustice, denounces and represents, along with the crosses, the lamentable loss of those lives. It is the wish of every good man, for this sculpture to be a permanent reminder to the memory of those who suffered and lost their lives in this painful endeavor, whose only sin was their yearning to become better individuals.”
The monument was erected by TIJUANA SCULPTURE
SYMPOSIUM I Coordinated by the Tijuana’s Image Committee and the
International Association of Monumental Sculpture Events in February
2005. It is the work of Roberto Rosique.
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