By the Night Tide

Installed on the Mexican side of the border, "By the Night Tide/Junto a la marea nocturna" consisted of three sculptures that suggested ships made of wire mesh with catapults that could send coconuts across the border fence toward the US side.

• 1994

• Rittermann, Philipp Scholz (American photographer, 1955 CE-)

• Escobedo, Helen (Mexican sculptor and museum administrator, 1934-2010)

• InSITE94

This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 04, Item 109)

Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico

steel (alloy); mesh; coconut

• InSITE94

• Mexican-American border region

• Sculpture (visual work)
• Walls

• Border art
• Boundaries
• Catapults (ancient weapons)
• Humor
• Oceans
• Vessels
• Weapons

• image

Shared Shelf: 16715390

Online finding aid

• inSite Archive

Garden and Landscape

Performing Arts (including Performance Art)

Sculpture and Installations

[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

Unknown (US)

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