The Gap is a long-term photographic project that explores the U.S.–Mexico border wall, questioning what it truly represents within its natural context: a visual inquiry into how power materializes through space, through a physical barrier—an artificial disruption imposed on a continuous landscape.
These images approach this line of separation from minimal distances, focusing on open spaces—deserts, seas, hills, plains—where geographic and visual continuity undermines the official rhetoric of difference. From such proximity, the border emerges as an imposition alien to the terrain it occupies: a structure attempting to impose a boundary where the land itself offers none.
In its mere existence, the wall enacts a form of violence that goes beyond its physical function: it is also an architecture of rejection. It transforms a shared landscape into a contested space, imposing artificial difference on continuous geography. The border becomes not just a line, but a wound—both visual and conceptual.
The wall claims to provide security, but its true purpose lies in signaling control—performing sovereignty, enforcing inequality, and turning fear into policy. The images unfold as quiet observations of a structure that leaves behind dissonance, tension, and unresolved meanings, as well as human scars born of exploitation, displacement, and fear.
The Gap resists spectacle.