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Teetering toward unity: Art at the US-Mexico border

By Madeline Fry Schultz
Published August 3, 2019 3:54pm ET
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Teetering toward unity: Art at the US-Mexico border
Children and a man play on seesaw installed between the border fence that divides Mexico from the United States in Ciudad de Juarez, Mexico, Sunday, July 28, 2019. The seesaw was designed by Ronald Rael, a professor of architecture in California. | (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)

The border wall, increasingly a metaphor for division, just became a symbol of unity (at least for a small section).

After artists placed three hot pink seesaws between slats on a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, people on both sides gathered to participate in the art installation for half an hour this week.

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