With this installment, I have the honor of highlighting the unique works of Cuban artist Ricardo Miguel Hernández and his When memory turns to dust collection. It is photographs like this that seriously pull me in and make me linger a lot longer than I usually would. Isn't that what any great picture does? Shouldn't that always be the goal of the creator? There's a lot to take in and discover in every image in his series, as each has its own story to tell. What's more, it's not a story that he invents, but one that the viewer receives from their neurons bouncing around and creating it at a cellular level in their head. We develop and drive the tale built upon our past and present, using Hernández's fractured images as fuel. I, for one, welcome this from imagery that is as much installation work or performance art as it is photography. Hernández reminds us what cut, copy, and paste were before the computer age. These images are not composites put together in Photoshop but physical objects that have been rebuilt and reborn as assemblages.

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