Message from the Exterior Edition:Unsigned tonalities

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Public Matters surfaces at a juncture when the message of building bridges is needed now more than ever

Sharp details testify to the abandonment and demise of half-familiar scenes even as they transfigure them into stage-like arenas for ideation

Nausea—taken from the title of Sartre’s 1938 existential novel—is a body of photographs that registers the interiors of public schools in Baton Rouge

almost all of which are little-known and previously unpublished

Message from the Exterior Edition:Unsigned tonalitiesMessage from the Exterior explores the ruins and remains of failed attempts to live in the deserts harsh environments, depicting abandoned houses small, often eccentric huts, both humorous and a little forlorn. Ruwedel examines the desert regions east of Los Angeles as a palimpsest of cultural and natural histories, presenting an inventory of a particular, and poignant, form of vernacular architecture; each structure might be read as a clue to the