Pável Acevedo explores the political and personal effects of migration, immigration, borders, and the duality many immigrants contend with after leaving their homeland for a new nation. Acevedo melds elements of Mexican mural painting, printmaking, and classical drawing, with symbols and imagery from the codex of Huaxyacac and Nahuatl, the ancient Aztec language. WithInland Empire, Acevedo confronts issues of housing, displacement, and migration and explores what it means — metaphorically and practically — to reside on the outskirts, to commute between cultures, to live in an inconclusive state between families and between lands.