Recovering Territory

"It is said that the only reason for a group to remain on a spot indefinitely, and thus become a nation, is because its members are buried there. A scattered and dermic cemetery introduces us to a circuit of places and references dealing with historic melancholia-territory, rooting, patterns of the Heinrich Klüver constants, dream vs. veil. Aby Warburg's photographs of Santa Fe, iconology, monuments, game boards, civilization vs. savageness, pattern recognition, and immigration." - Erick Beltrán