That history is on display in La Crosse, Kan., at the Kansas Barbed Wire Museum. You can see more than 2,000 unique varieties of the vital tool, which corralled livestock and, in many ways ...

Electric cables, which often mimic the harshness of barbed wire, are a recurring motif in Kallat's work, rooted in her personal connection to India's Partition. Her paternal family's experience of ...