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New murals quickly appear on replaced border fence

If art first you don't succeed...

A freshly painted mural on the border fence by artist Wile E. Coyote, which seems to make it look like there is a kind of hole through which people may pass, is a comment on President Biden’s comments during his campaign that there should be a “surge at the border,” comments which have been interpreted by over six million migrants as an invitation to enter America by whatever means necessary. However, less than half of those migrants actually made it across the border, which helps to explain the “fake gate” imagery.
A freshly painted mural on the border fence by artist Wile E. Coyote, which seems to make it look like there is a kind of hole through which people may pass, is a comment on President Biden’s comments during his campaign that there should be a “surge at the border,” comments which have been interpreted by over six million migrants as an invitation to enter America by whatever means necessary. However, less than half of those migrants actually made it across the border, which helps to explain the “fake gate” imagery.
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Wile E. Coyote is a Mexican national who has been trying without success to enter America for the past 25 years. He is also an artist, and has taken up his brush in order to offer his own comment on America’s border wall, which was recently replaced here at Playas de Tijuana. “There were murals on the old wall, but they were pretty earnest,” says Coyote. “Mine has more of an embittered feel about it. Javier Salazar is known as The Deported Artist, and he recently painted a mural nearby of a man made from pink erasers — to ‘make the wall fade away,’ as he put it. That put me in mind of Ana Teresa Fernandez’s Borrando La Fronterra, the project in which she painted part of the border wall to make it look like it was no longer there. But of course, it was there. The Border exists, and the wall exists, no matter how much art we make pretending otherwise. It reminded me of my old days chasing the Road Runner, hoping that he’d run into that fake tunnel I’d painted and knock himself silly. But of course, he somehow made it through anyway. And when I tried to follow…bam! Story of my life. I guess that’s why I’m still here in Mexico.”

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A freshly painted mural on the border fence by artist Wile E. Coyote, which seems to make it look like there is a kind of hole through which people may pass, is a comment on President Biden’s comments during his campaign that there should be a “surge at the border,” comments which have been interpreted by over six million migrants as an invitation to enter America by whatever means necessary. However, less than half of those migrants actually made it across the border, which helps to explain the “fake gate” imagery.
A freshly painted mural on the border fence by artist Wile E. Coyote, which seems to make it look like there is a kind of hole through which people may pass, is a comment on President Biden’s comments during his campaign that there should be a “surge at the border,” comments which have been interpreted by over six million migrants as an invitation to enter America by whatever means necessary. However, less than half of those migrants actually made it across the border, which helps to explain the “fake gate” imagery.
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Wile E. Coyote is a Mexican national who has been trying without success to enter America for the past 25 years. He is also an artist, and has taken up his brush in order to offer his own comment on America’s border wall, which was recently replaced here at Playas de Tijuana. “There were murals on the old wall, but they were pretty earnest,” says Coyote. “Mine has more of an embittered feel about it. Javier Salazar is known as The Deported Artist, and he recently painted a mural nearby of a man made from pink erasers — to ‘make the wall fade away,’ as he put it. That put me in mind of Ana Teresa Fernandez’s Borrando La Fronterra, the project in which she painted part of the border wall to make it look like it was no longer there. But of course, it was there. The Border exists, and the wall exists, no matter how much art we make pretending otherwise. It reminded me of my old days chasing the Road Runner, hoping that he’d run into that fake tunnel I’d painted and knock himself silly. But of course, he somehow made it through anyway. And when I tried to follow…bam! Story of my life. I guess that’s why I’m still here in Mexico.”

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