Sculptures Reflect Violent Life on the Border — and Death

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CNN, 7/10/2009

The sculptures speak for themselves: Piñatas in the shape of decapitated heads bearing gunshot wounds adorn the walls of El Paso’s Public Library in Texas.

The exhibit, called “Ciudad Juarez es the .1,” is the work of local artist Abel Saucedo, 24, a recent arts graduate of the University of Texas in El Paso.

Saucedo grew up in El Paso and Ciudad Juarez across the border in Mexico, and says violence is now a normal part of life on the border.

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