Who Crosses Borders is a site-specific performance at Art Omi inspired by an old barbed wire fence found at a creek on the property. The artist's work explores the borders of language and identity through calligraphy and collaboration with natural elements. In this piece, the barbed wire becomes an obstacle that the artist navigates with brush and body, moving through the ink directly on paper before it dries. The words are written in Chinese, Arabic, and Hebrew—the artist's ancestral languages. After moving through the barbed wire installation and exiting on the other side of the canvas, the performance concludes with the artist removing the entire piece of barbed wire from the work, freeing the piece from the physical and metaphorical borders placed on it, leaving marks from their body and bits of dirt and grass in the work.
The finished piece is 15’x3’ feet. Sumi ink and dirt on tyvek.
