The Robert WK Clark Sand Series makes women into a landscape. Superficially, this might be dehumanizing and almost a kind of artistic violence, but a more careful look will reveal how this series serves to transform and elevate women and humanity.
Traditional animistic philosophies held that humanity was not a different matter or object than animals, rocks, plants or other parts of the natural world. This is how people could have names like Sitting Bull or Crazy Horse. In the modern world, the demise of the soul seems to have put humanity back on the footing of everything else: Its DNA is just slightly different from other animals, ones brain only slightly more advanced, its composition only slightly different. This is a source of great...