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Gemidos de la Tierra  (Wailing of the Land/Soil) by Jackie Am茅zquita addresses the cruel and fatal reality of detainment camps that immigrants encounter upon their arrival to the U.S.

Am茅zquita has created a mobile public installation of twelve panels (8鈥� x 4鈥�) with names of immigrants that died in ICE detention centers. The names of the deceased are created with soil from the state where the individual died, and combined with cornflour (masa), salt and rain water to symbolize that despite their death these individuals still inhabit a physical space.

Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailing of the Land/Soil) becomes a place of healing, memorializing, and encouraging activism. The names of children who were victims of the detention centers are created with the documents that published their deaths, and mixed with chia seeds that ultimately will sprout from the letters themselves. Due to each name being created with its own unique mixture of soil and other natural ingredients, each name possesses its own unique texture and color palette, honoring each individual rather than reducing their lives to a statistic as the U.S. Government does.