joseph scissorhands: Oscar Murillo: A balancing act between collapse and spirit

Oscar Murillo - field of spirits (detail).

“Let’s work hard in unity as human beings in this world. I am reminded of what the American entrepreneur and astronaut, Jared Isaacman, said as he looked down on the Earth from a privately funded space capsule: ‘Back at home, we all have a lot of work to do...But from here, Earth sure looks like a perfect world.’ I recognize the inherent irony in borrowing the words of someone like Isaacman, a person of such tremendous privilege that he could finance his own ticket to space. But there is something vulnerable in seeing the earth from that great distance, seeing it abstractly, with all of its flaws smoothed away. From far away, he was able to cut straight to the point.” — Oscar Murillo, October 2024