American BackyardWhen Elliot Ross and Genevieve Allison traveled the 2,000 miles of the U. S. Mexico border it was the spring of 2017. The post election climate had presented a stark new context for looking at cultural and political difference in the United States and so many of these fragmenting narratives had found expression in the border wall debate. Through an amalgam of portraiture and topographical studies of border security infrastructure, American Backyard