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A newsletter featuring interviews led by Nicole Martinez, with Morel Doucet and with Adler Guerrier.

You might say that Haitian-born, Miami-based artist Adler Guerrier is a cultural anthropologist of sorts. Interested in place as a subject matter – both its aesthetic qualities and the role a society plays in shaping it – Guerrier employs photography, collage, and painting to illustrate the complexity of local terrain. Numerous themes frequently come to the fore – lush foliage, worn photographs, and gentle pastels excavate Miami’s Caribbean sensibility. Guerrier selects these motifs, which initially appear as nostalgic, as present interpretations of how this place came to be made. He layers them into one another to mirror the many cultures and customs that overlap in Miami.

Nicole Martinez, Bakehouse Rising, volume 4.