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Crossways is an installation that brings together sculpture and endoscopic video to grapple with borders as entities that are both ideological and physical constructions and porous and prohibitive boundaries. 

In Crossways, the video installation invites viewers to follow the meandering pathway of an endoscopic camera as it simultaneously shows the two sides of multiple borders, the Detroit/Windsor border, the Juarez/El Paso border, and the Louisiana/Texas border. The video also moves through previous borders between these countries, emphasizing the changing nature of national boundaries. As the camera burrows through soil and dives into rivers, it confronts, crosses, and sometimes fails to cross these borders. 

Various tools and materials –mirrors, post diggers, maps, and concrete– have been historically used to construct or challenge the solidity of borders. The sculptures in the installation take up these materials and skew them, revealing how interventions in landscape develop over time, and questioning what other potential pasts or futures could exist. Though borders can feel inevitable, Crossways reminds us that they are human constructions.