CrossPASS is a project featuring collaborative and individual works by artists Demitra Thomloudis and Motoko Furuhashi that examine place through expanded media and the intimate lens of jewelry and small objects.The project targets a distinctive stretch of the Interstate 10 corridor that connects the unique borderplex region of El Paso, Texas to Las Cruces, New Mexico. The objective of CrossPASS is to allow site-specific locations and the artists’ shared personal inquiries along this route to initiate a collection of images, video and sound that directly influences the creation of jewelry and objects. The viewer is asked to not only join in the artists' investigation of this land awash with dramatic terrain, vernacular structures and a multitude of boundaries, but also discover these sites through the body.
