Lucy Arnold

Invested objects: found childhood, materiality and the migrant child in Valería Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive (2019) and Ali Smith’s Spring (2019)

In a laboratory in San Marcos, Texas, is a box containing a small stuffed lion and a luchadore’s mask. The laboratory is associated with Operation Identification, an initiative working to identify the remains of migrants found on the Texas-Mexico border. Many of the bodies are th...