A LINE TOWARDS THE WEST AND SOUTH, 2020

Duration: 40 Hours

Silent, Single-channel video

A continuous line from Boston, Massachusetts to Albuquerque, New Mexico on the Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways over six days in July 2020.

The title of this piece comes from the Papal Bull of 1493, the Inter Caetera, which was the foundation for the principal of the Doctrine of Discovery and states that all lands "discovered and to be discovered towards the west and south by drawing a line from the Arctic pole, namely to the north, to the Antarctic pole, namely the south" shall be colonized and converted to the Catholic faith.  The ability to make this cross-country journey rests on a history of Catholic doctrine and abuses, genocide, resource imperialism, militarism, the ideology of American exceptionalism, consumerism, and greed.