Legal Aliens

Legal Aliens is an exhibition that deals with meteorites, migration, the US/Mexico border, and modernist architecture.  In a narrative combined of these various elements, color, form, and imagery tell a story about science, politics, and creating utopias or dystopias.

The title of this body of work refers to cosmic migrants (meteorites) as “Legal Aliens”, a play on the rather derogatory term “illegal alien” that is often used by the media to describe individuals who have unlawfully crossed a border. As meteorites are named and associated with the geographical location in which they land, they are basically assigned a national identity, although they originate from a place that is incredibly distant from our planet.