In an essay that Katherine Ware (Curator of Photographs for the New Mexico Museum of Art) wrote about Surface Tension in 2014 she frames the work with these words: “In each of the three places … photographed (North America, the Middle East, Europe), tensions escalated to the point at which an armed physical barrier was erected and enforced for decades. Warpinski’s sharp color photographs ground these images in our contemporary moment, demonstrating that this destruction of lives, cultures, and ecosystems implicates us all.”