We worked with a group of would-be migrants at the Casa de los Inmigrantes, Tecate.  These would-be immigrants were shipped back across the US-Mexico border by the US border police. 

We worked with them in a hypnosis session and asked them to visualize three successive relationships of themselves in regards to: a person, their home and their surroundings.

In a trance state, they were asked to express their feelings as a shape or form.  For example, a feeling of anxiety may be imagined as sharp and fragmented, and a state of well being translates as a softer, rounder form: in this way a form is imagined that relates to an emotional experience.

One subject imagined a claustrophobic shape that seemed to be made of two interlocking cubes.  His description was then translated into an emotion-form.  In our attempt to materialize this form  we used various mediums, including drawings, oil on canvas,an installation involving an inflatable sculpture, video and stereo-lithography. 

The process is multi-disciplinary and collaborative and involved contributions from Lourdes Huerta, Bernardo Navarro and Fred Olszak.  At all times Olga Margarita Davila helped guide and coordinate the process.