Robert Ransick recently completed a six-month residency at Eyebeam, building Casa Segura in the southern Arizona desert. As its title suggests, the structure is intended as a "safe house" for migrants crossing the border, where they can find food and shelter in the solar-powered domicile. The house also features a touch screen for visitors to relate something about their lives in the form of a message or pictogram, which is then uploaded to the work's bilingual website. In an interview, Ransick said that he hoped that the building would serve to help mediate tensions between the various social and political groups contesting and controlling the border between the US and Mexico.