Discovery by Affidavit: Water Story

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By Monica Uszerowicz, Winter 2024 The anthropomorphized manatee at the center of The Mother (2024)—a colored-pencil drawing from the artist Beatriz Chachamovits’s “Curandeiras” series, which renders familiar archetypes into aquatic Borgesian entities—fulfills her namesake. She has loving arms and the protective, curious gaze of a new parent; a fish peeks out from her cape, like a child […]