Life on both sides of the border
Drawing lines in the sand
Humanity has invented many kinds of borders – barricades and barbed wire, walls and electric fences – to protect itself from the Other, where there were not already mountains or seas. None of these ever stood in the way of a real urge, or urgent need, to cross them. Edouard Glissant, a Martinique writer who has long defended the identity of his island as well as the rights of peoples throughout the world, complements Anabell Guerrero’s photographs of the Wayu women who live astride the borders of Colombia and Venezuela.
by Edouard Glissant
We are drawn to borders, not because they are signs or elements of the impossible but because they are places of passage and transformation. Relationship depends on the mutual influence of identities, be they individual or collective, and requires each identity to be distinct and independent. (...)
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