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For many years now I have traveled to San Miguel de
Allende, a colorful colonial town in the central mountains of Mexico.
There are two visual aspects of the town that have always attracted my
attention. The first are the walls of the buildings. They come in a huge
variety of colors, materials and textures. The second are the overhead
wires (electric, cable, telephone) that form a spider’s web nearly
everywhere you look. For each photo of this series I combined one image
of a wall (or walls) with one image of overhead wires. I made the images
black-and-white in order to emphasize the textures of the walls and the
abstract, dream-like quality of the composite images. The images also
have a somewhat bleak, sinister look to them, which correlates with my
anxiety about the increasing level of cartel-related crime and violence
that has come to the area in recent years as the town has grown and
become increasingly popular as an international tourist destination. I
see the walls as symbols of security and isolation and the wires as
representing constraint and entrapment.
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