Boundaries challenges the physical, imagined, and psychological dividing lines—both historic and current—that shadow America and perpetuate an us vs. them mindset by inciting irrational fears, hate, and prejudice. In contrast to the current narrowing definition of an America with very clear-cut boundaries, Blanco and Hessler cross and erase borders. As artists, they tear down barriers to understanding by pushing boundaries and exposing them for what they truly are—fabrications for the sake of manifesting power and oppression pitted against our hopes of indeed becoming a boundary-less nation in a boundary-less world.
Edition of 300. Copies 1-50 are deluxe editions that contain a Jacob Hessler photograph printed on aluminum and a page of typescript poetry, with handwritten corrections by Richard Blanco. These are housed in a special clamshell box made for the edition at Claudia Cohen bookbindery, where they were bound by hand. Copies 51-300 are signed, numbered and housed in a slipcase.
Available exclusively through Two Ponds Press. All proceeds support Two Ponds’s continued work in fine-press publishing.
