Because of its place on the border and its history of Pan-American reflection, Buffalo is the perfect place to gather scholars and artists from the Western Hemisphere in order to extend and reassess efforts to rethink the limits of the Americas.
Borders thus become the after-shock of friction between already constituted identities.
Standing next to a woman of the late 1920's is a man with two model cars representing Buffalo's automobile industry. Another couple hold tools and a sewing machine representing Buffalo's working class. In the background is a silhouette of City Hall, the bridge that connects the two countries and the world famous Niagara Falls. Another female figure, perhaps Lady Liberty, shows a school-boy the way to peace. A fisherman with a basket of fish brings the bounty of the Great Lake Erie to market.