Ma(r)king Myth, Imagining Nowhere: A German Exile's Alaskan Archive

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Ma(r)king Myth, Imagining Nowhere: A German Exile's Alaskan Archive

In this philosophical essay, Jackie Valle brings a phenomenological approach to vision and perception in the context of Carl Heidenreich’s late works, drawing on Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s The Visible and Invisible and Jean-Paul Sartre’s Being and Nothingness to call into question our understanding of reality as glimpsed through the transparencies, opacities, and layered pools of watercolor pigment in Heidenreich’s Alaskan Series.

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Miami: un memento mori para ti

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Miami: un memento mori para ti

Miami froze me with her sass, me dio tremendo erizo as the chills me corrieron por adentro y encima. She was defiant, super exigente, always cooking the Caribbean … and those endearing spills, swoons, and shakes; sometimes, in rare moments, she could even be tipa hipócrita, a necessary evil in the art of sinvergüenza–surviving three deaths before her final. In life, Miami was a vision who lived in a perpetual state of absence from home; she was here and she was there. Her vulnerability manifested in lapses between English fragments and the Spanish of being in exile. 

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