Red Sand Project earthworks are large-scale, site-specific outdoor land art installations. Stretching hundreds of feet long in the shapes of political borders, earthworks raise important questions about migration, freedom of movement, and the ways refugees are susceptible to exploitation. They highlight the ways in which borders, drawn arbitrarily through history, divide communities and make individuals more vulnerable to trafficking.

Created by Molly Gochman, earthworks began in 2015 just as the polarizing, political rhetoric around immigration and the US-Mexico border started to reach a fever pitch. Considering ways to physically increase the scale of Red Sand Project, Molly sought to draw more attention to the ways in which the battles over the border were making already vulnerable populations even more susceptible to mistreatment and abuse. As public art installations, earthworks provide spaces for activists, community members, and others to question, connect and take action against vulnerabilities that can lead to human trafficking and exploitation.