Border Crossing - San Diego, CA
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N 32° 43.903 W 117° 09.048
11S E 485870 N 3621555
This sculpture is located near the San Diego Museum of Art ... but was previously set at Kettner Street across from San Diego's Santa Fe Depot downtown.
Waymark Code: WMR70T
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 05/19/2016
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This work is provocattive- especially in San Diego (maybe that is why it keeps getting moved.) The sculpture clearly is depicting three people who are crossing the border in a non-conventional- and probably illegal manner.
The Smithsonian website describes this sculpture by artist Luis Jimenez as a (
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"Man carrying a woman on his shoulders. She carries a child in her arms. The child's open mouth and facial expression indicate that it is screaming. The child's hands appear thin and bony. The man holds the woman's knees with both hands. He wears a yellow shirt and blue pants. His proper right knee is bent. The woman wears a red shirt and green skirt."
The Smithsonian inventory has three separate numbers for this piece- apparently because it has been moved. It appears to have first been in New Mexico, then Los Angeles...and before it arrived at it's present location, the author of this waymark noticed this sculpture first in San Diego's Civic Plaza near the San Diego City Hall lobby (c. 2008).