Ishmael Randall Weeks

Dreamcatcher

Ishmael Randall Weeks (b. 1976, Cusco, Peru) lives and works in New York, New York, United States and Lima, Cusco, Peru. Dreamcatcher comprises a NYC street food cart suspended caught in a copy of President Trump’s southern border wall; the wall is filled with layers of soil from the seven countries with the highest rates of immigration to the US, including Mexico, China, India, Philippines, and El Salvador.

Support

Major support for the High Line Plinth is provided by Shelley Fox Aarons, Jennifer Allan Soros, Elizabeth Belfer, Suzanne Deal Booth, Fairfax Dorn, Andy and Christine Hall, Hermine Riegerl Heller, J. Tomilson Hill, The Holly Peterson Foundation, Annie Hubbard, Dorothy Lichtenstein, Donald R. Mullen, Jr., Miyoung Lee and Neil Simpkins, Doug Oliver, Mario J. Palumbo, Jr., Susan Scherr, Susan Viniar, and Anonymous.