A couple of more pics of my students works. The first ones are contemporary works that feature actual instruments that project the boarder violence through music called "Nacro Corridos". The student wanted to reflect the bloodshed that has been spilled throughout Northern Mexico and how some local musicians have been inspired to write songs that narrate the life of drug cartels and their episodes. In the past few years, there have been a handful of well known musicians, like John Sebastian, that have been killed for such songs that paint a "negative" view of the drug life or songs that make reference to musically bash certain cartel groups, which we all know will probably kill you. The black guitar depicts a story of one such event that happened in a cantina in Reynosa. The student was interviewing a musician that has to put his life on the line every night in order to make enough to survive and has seen his share of violence, be it with drugs or guns...he wanted to capture the testimonial not through sheer paper, but with a guitar in order to make it more "realistic" for the reader/viewer. The black and white photos were also taken by one of my students that has raised the thought of inner, personnel struggles that teens usually face alone. They may look positive and outgoing from the outside (hence the all famous happy face) , but they are being tormented by many factors, eventually becoming so great that one takes his/her life as a way of escaping themselves. Yes, those are real razors!!