from here to there; from there to here (2019-2023)
engages with themes around movement between Mexico and Canada through the train. Thinking about the train carts as containers of labour, the piece critiques practices of commerce favouring products over people: free product flow, restricted immigration. Using visual and sound railway cues, González connects both countries to emphasize the inadvertent power of Canadian imperialism over Mexico concerning human labour.
In the first part of the audio, González traces the railway map that connects Mexico and Canada. In the second part, Gonzalez extracts quotes from KCS President and Chief Executive Officer Patrick J. Ottensmeyer's media press announcement from March 21, 2021. More information about Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern agreement to create the first U.S.-Mexico-Canada rail network here.