We talked with a designer of the U.S.-Mexico border-wall seesaws about how they created an art instillation to bring both sides together
When it came time to install the “Teetertotter” at the border last Sunday, Rael says he was extremely nervous: He didn’t know whether the Mexican soldiers stationed at the border or U.S. border patrol officers would take umbrage to the project, or prevent them from installing it. He was pleasantly surprised, however, when the officers and soldiers who asked him about the project didn’t object to it at all.
Since he initially posted his Instagram video of the seesaw, Rael says he’s gotten almost uniformly positive feedback. He’s seen very little negative commentary from border control hawks on the far right, which he says doesn’t surprise him. “There is a fundamental meanness around the concept of a wall and it is very mean to want to keep children from playing,” he says. “I do wonder if that’s why [we’ve gotten very little criticism for the project.
In light of the Supreme Court recently giving Trump the green light to expand border walls, which may cost an, Rael is hopeful his project will draw public attention not just to policy debates, but to the actual lives of those who live and work on the borders. “There are communities there: grandmothers, children, mothers, fathers,” he says.
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