Hannah Smith Allen: On Broken Ground examines the U.S.–Mexico border through still photographs, screen prints, collage, and video. The project began when Allen discovered digital glitches in Google Earth's rendering of the border wall — distortions that read as metaphors for the fragility of enforced division. Physical trips to the border followed, alongside new collages that layer fractured landscapes with imagery from Trump's military parade. A video installation projects stop-motion Google Earth sequences onto target stands and newsprint, rendering the border hallucinatory and unstable rather than fixed.
