Terri Warpinski:
Liminal Matter: Fences and
Liminal Matter: Traces are two editions of our collaboration that are much like books each a set of broadsides (unbound printed pages) in a custom case or box. However, Laura and I would more describe them as portfolios.
Will the work be displayed as a book or as wall-
hanging photos?
We have a display set of the individual broadsides that are mounted for presentation on the wall. We will also have the boxed sets visible in a display case.
What got you going on “Fences” and “Traces”?
I began working on landscape photographs that were based on the U.S. border with Mexico in 2008-09 when I was on a sabbatical from the UO and teaching as a visiting professor at the New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. It was a time when there was much construction of fortified fencing taking place just before the Obama administration came into power. I continued to photograph along the border from Texas to California over the next six