In November, 1970, Allan Kaprow, an artist known for his “Happenings,” built, to condemn the Berlin Wall, his Sweet Wall near its site in Germany. He, with friends, cemented cinder blocks with bread and jam, then knocked them down.

What I coordinated was an historical tribute and a statement about walls. It was about President Trump’s proposed wall between Mexico and the U.S.
With 15-20 helpers, we built a wall of 20-30 cardboard boxes on the Brooklyn College lawn as part of Respond, BC, a week of political art on the Brooklyn College campus in May 2017. We “cemented” the boxes with gobs of wheat-paste, and then graffiti’d the wall with appropriate pro-immigration, anti-the-Mexican-wall statements and drawings. Then we knocked it down.

The whole process was documented with videos and still photographs.

Three still photographs are displayed below.