PROJECT: Historias en la Camioneta

I grew up on the U.S. Mexico border, and my family and I have used a shuttle
service since I was as child to migrate through the landscape to and from
larger metropolitan cities such as Los Angeles and Phoenix. When I think
about my earliest memories on the shuttle bus, I see my mother immersed in
conversations with passengers for hours at a time. As an adult, I find
myself in her seat, conversing with others and participating in
storytelling, debates and confessions. My experiences on these voyages have
proven that ephemeral communities can form where politics, religion,
economics, globalization, and personal histories emerge. Most often these
relationships disappear at the journey's end as we may never cross paths
again.

Historias en la Camioneta records my experience on the shuttle to and from
Agua Prieta, Sonora Mexico and Phoenix, Arizona. My fellow passengers
reveal their perspectives and personal narratives, informed by the backdrop
of the desert landscape.

The combination of the passengers' dialogue and changing scenery intimately
reveals the interrelationship of personal histories to the particular places
passed during the journey. The transient nature of the "tellings" in the
shuttle exist for a fixed time as invisible traces of our era, lost in the
passing landscape and unacknowledged.