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Postcards from the Border: An Essay of Paintings with Artist Susan Lyman

Welcome to this digital gallery of collage painting to reckon with and reimagine landscapes in the U.S. borderlands.

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Todd Miller
Jan 30, 2025
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Susan Lyman, Border Surveillance in the Grasslands, 2022, oil on board, 12 × 12 in.

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From high up in a helicopter, Border Patrol agents scour the ground below, looking for “something that looks out of place.” So said Keith Kincannon, supervisory agent of the CBP’s Office of Air and Marine Operations, in a 2022 interview with Cronkite News. “You know,” he …

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