Not posting in the blogging world is the gravest sin, and I am guilty. It is something about school and, in particular, doing, thinking, talking, and writing about art all day long that drives me away from posting. But as I said at the beginning, this is about what art comes around… and a lot has.

About a month ago, a graduate students conference—”Dialogues on Animality“—that I co-organized happened in Philadelphia. Taylor Nelms (University of California, Irvine) presented a fascinating paper about how e/immigrants, in this case from Ecuador to the USA, oscillate between nonhuman animal and transcendental subject-citizen. The paper is too dense and my memory too weak to recapitulate it here, but the point is that I learned about this amazing photographer, Geovanny Verdezoto, who juxtaposes multiple exposures to create this accordian-like expanse of pictorial space. Here are some examples from his “Los que se quedan” (2007).