“The Museum of the Seagulls" is a visual essay inspired by a museum that my self-made archaeologist, architect and ex-hunter grandfather has put together in the desert of Chile. Over the past 40 years he has explored the surface and depth across a few square kilometers of the Atacama Desert in Chile. While on vacation, he would cast his gaze over the desert from an airplane while searching for Indigenous cemeteries. The following year he blazed new trails while working his way through the land. Approaching it with an open and grateful attitude, he assessed the history of the land through the objects found in the present by utilising a mode of production that is both symbolic and subjective. He discovered indigenous cemeteries, mummies, Spanish artifacts, contemporary trash, biological specimens, toys, bullets from the Pacific War, Indian bones damaged by arrowheads, a green turtle colony located further south than....
