Welcome to Otay Mountain is an Alternative Field Guide to the Otay Mountain Wilderness Area in San Diego County, California near the US-Mexico border. It was created by Jared Margulies after visiting Otay in February 2019 shortly after the Trump administration declared a National Emergency at the border. Welcome to Otay Mountain offers a political ecology reading of the US-Mexico border through the lens of rare and endemic plant species conservation. It asks readers to consider our current political moment in which plants may be afforded more legal protections than asylum seekers attempting to cross the US-Mexico border.
Visit www.jaredmargulies.com for more information about Alternative Field Guides, or for how to purchase a limited edition print copy. All profits from sale of zine will be sent directly to No More Deaths (http://forms.nomoredeaths.org/about-no-more-deaths). Risograph printed on French Paper company Kraftone at Baltimore Print Studios in Baltimore, MD in April 2019, Eurostile font. 5×3.5".
