Border Wall Construction, 2020

Matthew Chase-Daniel & Julie Chase-Daniel


Border Wall Construction, 2020 film still

"The fragile ecosystem along El Camino del Diablo in Southern Arizona was invaded by thundering trucks transporting steel panels during the brutalizing construction of the US/ Mexico border wall in March 2020. As witnesses to this, the filmmakers felt compelled to document and share what they saw."


Matthew Chase-Daniel is a multi-media artist exhibiting internationally since 1985. Based in Santa Fe, he is a member of the Railyard Art Committee, a host of Coffee and Culture (an arts-interview radio show), curator of The Lena Wall, and the co-founder and co-curator of Axle Contemporary, a mobile artspace founded in 2010.


Julie Chase-Daniel is a poet, potter, and transdisciplinary scholar, focused on evolutionary consciousness. She holds an M.A. from California Institute of Integral Studies, and is the founder of In the Family Way, co-creator of I Ching Mothering Change, and a founding member of Support + Feed.



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