Esteban Cabeza de Baca’s time travels

Great art explained: José María Velasco

Firelei Báez: an open horizon

The immediate present

Now I know where to find you

Aeon Video has a monthly newsletter!

Get curated editors’ picks, peeks behind the scenes, film recommendations and more.

Transforming landscape painting into a portal through time

Borders are markers of division as much as spaces of exchange, where cultures are allowed to merge and identities resist fixed categories – though they remain at risk of exclusion and erasure, whether through colonisation or migratory restrictions. For the painter Esteban Cabeza de Baca, born in 1985 in San Ysidro, California, painting is a way to reconnect with erased roots and to reclaim histories ‘before we lose them to time’. In this short film, the US filmmaker César........

© Aeon