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Pink seesaws reach across the divide at US-Mexico border
From https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/30/pink-seesaws-reach-across-divide-us-mexico-border
Pink seesaws reach across the divide at US-Mexico border
Children seen playing on art installation that aims to show unity amid Trump-era hostility
Lanre Bakare
Arts and culture correspondent
Tue 30 Jul 2019 07.09 EDT Last modified on Tue 30 Jul 2019 07.56 EDT
[video at link]
US border wall seesaws allow children on each side to play together – video
A set of fluorescent pink seesaws has been built across the US-Mexico border by a pair of professors seeking to bring a playful concept of unity to the two sides of the divide.
Installed along the steel border fence on the outskirts of El Paso in Texas and Ciudad Juárez in Mexico, the seesaws are the invention of Ronald Rael, a professor of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and Virginia San Fratello, an associate professor of design at San José State University, who first came up with the concept 10 years ago.
In an Instagram post that has received tens of thousands of likes, children and adults can be seen playing and interacting on both sides of the fence using the seesaws, which provide “a literal fulcrum” between the countries, according to Rael. He said the event was about bringing “joy, excitement and togetherness at the border wall”.
[...]
Children seen playing on art installation that aims to show unity amid Trump-era hostility
Lanre Bakare
Arts and culture correspondent
Tue 30 Jul 2019 07.09 EDT Last modified on Tue 30 Jul 2019 07.56 EDT
[video at link]
US border wall seesaws allow children on each side to play together – video
A set of fluorescent pink seesaws has been built across the US-Mexico border by a pair of professors seeking to bring a playful concept of unity to the two sides of the divide.
Installed along the steel border fence on the outskirts of El Paso in Texas and Ciudad Juárez in Mexico, the seesaws are the invention of Ronald Rael, a professor of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and Virginia San Fratello, an associate professor of design at San José State University, who first came up with the concept 10 years ago.
In an Instagram post that has received tens of thousands of likes, children and adults can be seen playing and interacting on both sides of the fence using the seesaws, which provide “a literal fulcrum” between the countries, according to Rael. He said the event was about bringing “joy, excitement and togetherness at the border wall”.
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More at link.
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B0fY2R6hfKr/?utm_source=ig_embed
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