Borderland Rivers Watercolor Bibliography

One of the magical synchronicities of the Works on Water / Underwater New York residency was that my studio was across the hall from Nicole Antebi’s. We were both on the top floor with our doors facing one another. It wasn’t long before we discovered that both our research and projects were focused on a river that articulates an international border of the United States—hers, the Rio Grande bordering Mexico, and mine the St. Lawrence River, bordering Canada. We are both interested in complexities, social and ecological justice issues, ideas around belonging… We shared our bibliographies and  Nicole initiated a collaboration in which we each made watercolor images of our books. We hung our north and south oriented watercolor book spines in the library in the public area of the residency house on the first floor.

Nicole makes wonderful animations and recently published a great interview with historian David Dorado Romo about the fight to preserve the oldest barrio in El Paso. It is featured here on Longreads: The City I Love Is Destroying Itself.