Scars
As seen from Google Maps
Three jornaleros (informal immigrant workers, particularly of Mexican descent) are picked up in a pick-up truck from the Home-Depot on Northern Blvd, Queens. and brought to this riverside location in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Each of the three jornaleros are paid $1 for every meter they push the salt cube, with a bonus $500 if they push it for 100 meters. As they push the salt cubes, digging up the ground below, the salt mixes in with the soil, rendering it infertile--scaring the soil permanently.
As their hands push the salt cubes, the salt sucks the moisture out of their hands, drying and cracking their skin--eventually drawing blood. The result of this happening and performance is a drawing of the three lines on soil, the resulting sculptures of bloody and worn cubes of salt, as well as the remunerated jornaleros.
It's kind of a gruelsome piece, but it just isolates systems and implications already present in society. I simply expose these systems without the context that justifies it, thus exposing the sheer barbarity.
