Mark Armijo McKnight: Decreation

The skeleton of a goat in a scorched field may suggest an acute sense of mortality, entropy, and ecological crisis; its title, Ez Ozel (or: Father Figure), the biblical origins of the term scapegoat, also points to bad-faith tactics in contemporary politics. Taken together, these photographs present a surreal otherworld that is at once ecstatic and violent, sacred and profane, abundant and desolate.