Caroline Tracey

Caroline Tracey is a journalist and essayist whose work focuses on the U.S. Southwest and Mexico. Her essays appear in the Kenyon Review online, New South, and elsewhere. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, where she is the Climate Justice Fellow at the High Country News. Her manuscript-in-progress, Salt Lakes, won the 2022 Waterston Desert Writing Prize.

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The Ephemeral Forever

Caroline Tracey  | 
Issue 72.1 Fall 2023

A. Salt on Mina Mina (2007) is a 244-by-168 centimeter painting by Aboriginal artist Dorothy Napangardi. It is on display at the Musée des Confluences in Lyon, France. In it, white dots form off-kilter lines of varying widths and spacings from one another to create, all together, an askew grid. From afar, the painting suggests […]