I didn’t even realize that...quite a difference. That old fence could probably keep a car out, but it looks like people could have climbed over or above it.
Not so much the new fence!
I love streamlined workflow, and watching the way they did things made me realize it wasn’t just the physical fence itself they bid with during the process, the workflow as well. (which makes sense, but sometimes the bidding process in the government makes no sense)
Before the fence, there were obelisks – 276 monuments marking the US-Mexico border that were erected after the Mexican-American war ended in 1848.
In 2007, David Taylor, an Arizona-based artist and professor, set out to photograph them all – a task that lasted seven years and took him from the Texas,
New Mexico and Chihuahua border to the Pacific Ocean, passing through cities and remote mountainous terrain.
