Border crossings issue 168

"The thematic subject of this issue, while not dogmatic or narrow, does include a number of dogs and refers broadly to a correction of our estrangement from animals. The best “fixers” for this limiting, damaging gulf—between humans and animals—are artists. “Estrangement” is chosen with deliberation; it wasn’t always so. Let’s believe instead in a Paradisal prehistory and make efforts to return there.

So: artist, animals, artist and animals. Artist Rachel Harrison thinks syncretically and the works that result have taken her as maker and us as viewers on a disparate but linked transit from ‘this’ to ‘this,’ and the resulting ‘that’ is spectacular. She also likes dogs. The interview with her is in this issue..."

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