Toe tag art exhibit highlights migrants who died crossing into Arizona desert
Immigration
by: Sandra Sanchez
Posted: Oct 15, 2021 / 02:26 PM CDT / Updated: Oct 15, 2021 / 06:24 PM CDT
EDINBURG, Texas (Border Report) — An interactive art exhibit on display in South Texas features toe tags depicting where 3,200 undocumented migrants have died while trying to cross the desert into Arizona.
The exhibit, Hostile Terrain 94, is currently on display at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley at the campuses in Edinburg and Brownsville, Texas.
Dr. Sarah Rowe, an anthropology professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley on Oct. 14, 2021, explains an interactive art exhibit, Hostile Terrain 94, at the university's library in Edinburg, Texas. (Sandra Sanchez/Border Report)
Dr. Sarah Rowe, an anthropology professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley on Oct. 14, 2021, explains an interactive art exhibit, Hostile Terrain 94, at the university’s library in Edinburg, Texas. (Sandra Sanchez/Border Report)
It is data-driven art that is part of the Undocumented Migration Project, a nonprofit research organization directed by anthropologists to highlight migrant remains. It combines the geographic location of where the migrants died with community participation to create massive wall-sized pieces that are put up throughout the world.
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