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Neither Here Nor There
Dis-cover
Daniel Bejar/Destroyer
FunSaver
Get Lost!
Déjà Visite
Accessory For a Rear-view Forward
Stretchin a Dollar
Collecting the Sun
The Betsy Ross Trilogy
The Visual Topography of a Generation Gap
Trace
Marker screen grab of halfway point in Google Earth application

"22 11.517 N, 73 34.328 W (Neither Here Nor There)"

Google Earth intervention, digital C print
variable dimensions
2011
Project Description

In a March 2011 I traveled by plane, and boat to the coordinates 22 11.517
N, 73 34.328 W
which mark the halfway point between the United States
and Puerto Rico to document the site through photography. The halfway point
lies in the Bahamas, 28 miles off the southwestern coast of the Bahamian
island named Mayaguana.
Acting as an allegory I saw the halfway point as a symbol for Puerto Rico's
current political status as an unincorporated territory of the United States, as
well as my own multi-cultural experience.
Using the virtual globe software Google Earth, the image and coordinates were uploaded and mapped into Google Earth where the halfway point was put on the map, made "real", and can now be found.

ALL WORKS & IMAGES © DANIEL BEJAR 2012