03 🕯️Canon of Witnesses

The Canon of Witnesses is the living application of Post-Interpretive Criticism: Twelve essays that don't merely explain the philosophy. They embody it. Each scroll bears witness through restraint, presence, and moral proximity. These aren't reviews, but vigils. Documents of ethical witnessing. Together, they form the official canon, where theory becomes testimony and the critic learns to bow. This is where the light is kept burning.

15 Oct 2025 5 min read

12 Canon of Witnesses: The Body That Dissolved Sweetly - Félix González-Torres

There’s no photographs. No bones. No grand elegy carved in bronze. Just a pile of cellophane-wrapped candy. 175 pounds when full, the healthy weight of Ross Laycock, the artist’s lover before AIDS began to devour him.

13 Oct 2025 4 min read

11 Canon of Witnesses: Tehching Hsieh -The Custodian of Time

Tehching Hsieh didn't paint. He didn't sculpt. He didn't perform in the theatrical sense. He made vows. And kept them so severely that the world mistook it for madness. But it was sincerity.

04 Oct 2025 5 min read

10 Canon of Witnesses: On Ana Mendieta and the Imprint of the Unreturnable - The Trace That Would Not Fade

Ana Mendieta didn’t ask to be seen. She asked to be traced.

30 Sep 2025 8 min read

09 Canon of Witnesses: On Zarina Hashmi’s Home Is a Foreign Place

The room is unassuming; it doesn’t announce itself. No grand entrance, no flourish, no fanfare, no theatrical beckoning of the gaze. Its walls are white, but not the white of sterility.

21 Sep 2025 5 min read

08 Canon of Witnesses - The Language of the Crack: On Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth

Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth isn’t an installation. It’s a rupture. Architectural, historical, and ethical.