Carrington’s animals shift, transmute, and exit human epistemologies. Vik Shirley’s deer cannot. Instead, they persist—not because they expect to change anything, but because stopping would mean total submission. This is surrealism after rupture—after escape has been foreclosed, where the only remaining act is to endure. How we bring our despair through itself into an energy that acknowledges and transforms without self-deception—this is what Shirley’s deer gesture toward; however...
