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Title
By the Night Tide
Creator
Escobedo, Helen (Mexican sculptor and museum administrator, 1934-2010)
Rittermann, Philipp Scholz (American photographer, 1955 CE-)
Contributor
InSITE94
Date Created and/or Issued
1994
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
inSite Archive: Selections
Rights Information
Unknown
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Description
Garden and Landscape
Performing Arts (including Performance Art)
Sculpture and Installations
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.
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 04, Item 109)
[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Tijuana, Playas de, Baja California Norte, Mexico
Type
image
Format
Steel (alloy); mesh; coconut
Form/Genre
sculpture (visual work)
walls
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb23920812
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Catapults (ancient weapons)
Border art
Humor
Weapons
Boundaries
Oceans
Vessels
Sculpture (visual work)
Walls
Mexican-American border region
InSITE94
Place
Mexican-American border region

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