I like the statue outside of Harvill. I’m an art student so I had spent some time earlier in the school year studying the piece. I knew going into this project that it was a representation of the border issues between Mexico and the US. The way that the figures are holding up the wall and trying to push it down at the same time makes me think of the ongoing conflict and the ways people deal with it. Some people will try and come to the United States illegally prompting the Americans to “push” back harder to keep this wall standing strong.
I found it interesting with the muscle definition and the way that the artists left the figures with no skin. Does this represent a lack of ethnic color? Is the audience supposed to see these people as individuals, as groups of opposing minorities, or as part of the same human family? The muscles immediately make me feel like the figures are working or physically exerting themselves either trying to hold this wall up or knock it down.
I like to think that the statue serves as a piece of awareness for the issues surrounding our border and that the more people can figure out their individual role with the border issues, the better off our society will be. Statues like this provide awareness and it is this awareness that might lead to a groundbreaking change in policy or culture to ultimately resolve this issue.
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