Liminal Spaces
Some places are not quite places. At the border between Ciudad Juárez, México, and El Paso, USA, belonging is suspended. It is a space where identity remains porous and unfinished, neither arrival nor departure. To cross from one place to the other is to negotiate language, customs, and gestures, leaving fragments behind while acquiring new ones. If borders can be sites of brutality, they are also places of encounter. In these spaces, the self shifts and rearranges, holding the tension of being neither here nor there.
