Susan Rochester is a Sutherlin, Oregon-based photographer whose Remendando la
Frontera/Mending the Border series of digitally manipulated landscape photographs
printed on fabric invite us to contemplate the artificiality of the United States-
Mexico border. She asks us to think about the impact of the random and artificial
division of the land on the lives, fates and fortunes of inhabitants on both sides of
the border. Rochester kaleidoscopically fractures and reconstructs border
landscape photographs to produce images that refer to the designs of Navajo
blankets. In doing so she points out that the cultures and landscapes of the
Southwest are much older and more permanent than the border itself.