A pad of soil donated by Mexican and other Latin American immigrants is stamped with an SOS pattern using two large cast iron stamps that hanging on a wall. The inspiration for this installation was an image of tracks left on dirt by immigrants in the Texas desert. Like many of these immigrants, there are countless people around the world who are also leaving tracks in very inhospitable environments. Unfortunately, many of these tracks, silent cries for help, are unseen and erased by time.

A 15 by 10 foot white flag is stamped with a repeated SOS pattern painted with orange and black acrylic paint following the colors of the Olympic Refugee flag. A visually loud cry for help that can be easily overlooked by those who do not slow down to see the well-known Morse code for help.

10 yard long “protest banners” read in large block font LIBERTAD (Freedom), LA VERDAD (The truth), SU VIDA (Your life), ¡POR DIOS! (for God’s sake!), ¡NO MAS! (No more!), TU Y YO (You and I), AQUI NO PASA NADA (Nothing is happening here), PAZ (Peace), ESOS (Them), JUSTICIA (Justice). Each letter is made with hundreds of 1 inch dead human silhouettes stamps using consecrated wine for ink. These words and phrases are excerpts from the rhetoric found in an array of media outlets during the 2014 unaccompanied minor migration crisis in the US and were chosen because in the instances they were used their humanitarian essence was contextually striped-off to fulfill a political agenda.