Hospitality: general view of work in progress

Barbosa and Ricalde proposed covering the Puente Mexico (the pedestrian bridge that crosses the Tijuana River and leads from Avenida Revolucion toward the international border crossing at San Ysidro) with a carpet of painted names: a "welcome mat." The project, entitled "Hospitality," was inspired by the way in which color, typography, and first names are employed as marks of identity, much like the woven bracelets sold in handcraft market stalls along the border.

• 2005

• Barbosa, Felipe, 1978-
• Ricalde, Rosana, 1971-

• InSite_05

This image was extracted from a CD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 181)

Puente Mexico, Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico)

San Ysidro, San Diego, California, United States

Tijuana, Río, México, Mexico

paint on concrete

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• Mexican-American border region

• Installations (visual works)
• Public art

• Border art
• Border crossing
• Boundaries
• Bridges (built works)
• Carpets
• Collaboration
• Color
• Grids (layout features)
• Information signs
• Name tags
• Names
• Paintings (visual works)
• Paths
• Political art

• image

• No linguistic content; Not applicable

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• inSite Archive

Performing Arts (including Performance Art)

Sculpture and Installations

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