The border wall made of pipe organs isn’t real, but it’s still getting construction offers
When artist Jennifer Meridian signed up as a bidder for Donald Trump’s US-Mexico border wall, she didn’t think much would come of her plan. Meridian, part of Pittsburgh-based JM Design Studio, had wanted to make a statement about the wall’s absurdity. So her studio imagined a series of subversive, welcoming “barriers” made of lighthouses, hammocks, and pipe organs. “I just did it as a very light gesture,” Meridien says. “I imagined it would just be discarded immediately.” Then, she got her first pitch from somebody who wanted to help her build them.
The first vendor to approach her was hawking a product called EZ Slide, an “anti-climb coating” as slippery as ice that would “improve the aesthetics of the wall, protect it from the…
