"The Hands that Hold Us" considers the people and stories that move across the borderlands. Mimicking the silhouette of a prickly pear cactus, the sculpture features plaster-cast-hands, cradling each other and culminating in a hand holding a phone. The phone played short films made from across the globe which focused on boarder crossing. The installation is illuminated with programed lighting that pulls colors from the each frame of video.