La Jaula de Oro explores the state of captivity inflicted on undocumented immigrants in the United States through my family’s story of operating the first Mexican restaurant in Livingston, Tennesse, and receiving letters from the nearby jail (Overton County Justice Center) by a fellow Mexican migrant serving time, awaiting deportation. The first sculpture (left) is the home I grew up on, which was within the same half-mile radius as the other two buildings: the restaurant, and the jail itself. A recreation of the letter from the prisoner written by my mother is projected under my childhood home. In it, he writes of the solidarity he feels seeing the Mexican restaurant from the window of the jail. Under the restaurant is a picture of the inside of the restaurant and me as a child, and under the jail is my mother’s hypothetical response to the prisoner. At the time, my family was too scared to respond because of the fear of interacting with law enforcement.