JESSICA LUTZ

EDITORIAL Film Stills ABOUT Contact

Borderlands Beat of a Prayer REMEMBERING LIVES ON THE LINE

PROJECTS Borderlands Beat of a Prayer REMEMBERING LIVES ON THE LINE EDITORIAL Film Stills ABOUT Contact

Abundant in the Chihuahuan Desert, the Agave is known as the “giver of life.” Every part of the agave was used in native cultures: the crown of the mescal served as food, her juice fermented into an elixir, her thorns and filament serve as needle and thread, fibers made into sandals and clothing, the stalk, as seen in this image, as a lance shaft.

Evening light pierces the landscape near the Rio Grande in the Big Bend Borderlands.

Altars and cemeteries dot the landscape throughout the borderland region. Their white facade made with lime plaster contrasts with the desert brush and rugged landscape.

The rising moon casts light and shadow on a cliff serving as an American border wall as viewed from Mexican side in the lower canyons of the Big Bend. These natural geological structures made by nature millions of years ago are far grander than any border wall humans could craft.

The changing light casts shadow and form on the landscape of Redford Texas in the Big Bend Borderlands.

A passing moment of the solar eclipse known as the "Great American Eclipse" of 2017 as seen from the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in the high desert near Taos, New Mexico.

This image is part of the Mosiac series exploring inner visions of outer landscapes. The original image was of the Rio Grande and a massive stone cliff etched by the elements through deep time.

Across the border and deeper into Mexico, in the rugged valley of the Sierra Madres of Chihuahua, Tarahumara hold a ceremony in their mountain home, a place that they consider to be the center of the world.

This image is part of the Mosiac series exploring abstract visions of natural landscapes. The original image was an aerial view of the Rio Grande in the Big Bend Borderlands.

The silhouette of an Octotillo, a beloved plant indigenous to the Chihuahuan and Sonoran Desert, is a familiar site in the Big Bend Borderlands.

White tin icons hang on a lime plastered wall in Boquillas, Mexico, a small community across from Big Bend National Park along the Rio Grande.

An outlying chain of the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico loom large in Redford Texas as seen from the American side of the Rio Grande.

Women and children move to the sounds of the night during the Dia de los Muertos celebration in Oaxaca, Mexico.

This print called “Roots” is part of the Mosiac series exploring abstract visions of natural landscapes. The original image was a cactus in the Sonoran Desert.

A women of many faces at the Dia de Los Muertos celebration in Oaxaca, Mexico.

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