At first glance, Tom Kiefer seems to be a documentarian of the mundane. His collection at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles includes carefully curated photographs of used combs, empty canteens wrapped in denim, and dusty black shoelaces coiled together like snakes in
Raiders of the Lost Ark.
But his work actually offers an intimate portrait of contemporary life along the U.S.-Mexico border. The brushes and bottles he shoots on pastel backgrounds were all seized from migrants and asylum seekers at a customs and border facility in Arizona. Agents deemed these intimate belongings nonessential and tossed them out with the trash, but Kiefer saw in them a vehicle to tell human stories.
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