Terry R. Myers reviewed Terran Last Gun: Celestial Observations in the newest issue of The Brooklyn Rail.
"I finished reading Rebecca Solnit's new book about cultural change,
"The Beginning Comes After the End", just before seeing this
exhibition. So much of her book has stayed with me, and Last Gun's
work helped make it so. Take just one sentence, positioned in the face
of the death rattle gasping all around us: "I believe we're also
witnessing a shift from capitalism's tendency to see even the living,
even humans, as dead things -as objects and commodities. -to
Indigenous and animist worldviews that regard being, sentience, and
rights as qualities of rivers and mountains, as well as of plants and
animals." For sure, there has been substantial art produced in the
first quarter of this century, work that participates in the aesthetic
and ideological shift Solnit outlines above. Last Gun's work
contributes a surprising yet impactful direction to all of it."
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