And Lumber Would Season the Walls
Valentina Jager Lopezllera explores the fragmentation of Huntsville prisons and greenspace surrounding them in this month's Mood Ring titled And Lumber Would Season the Walls.
Valentina Jager Lopezllera is a visual artist, writer, and translator from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. She holds a Ph.D. in Creative Writing in Spanish from the University of Houston and an MFA in Art in Context from the Berlin University of the Arts, focusing on public memorial culture and artistic research. Her current research focuses on the intersection of prison geographies, natural space, and tourism. Since 2012 when she first encountered it, Valentina became a Butoh enthusiast.