ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the artwork as a process, a re-presentation and an assertion that may provoke through its insistent re-presentation, may expose via explorations of intimacy, may provide shelter for the reception of fragments. Every child receives fragments, enigmatic clues to the adult world, in which the other's alterity cannot be fully transferred, and these 'become the stuff of the next generation's "dreamwork". The images not only portray the 'dream' of the child but also ask after the dreams of the disappeared themselves, especially given Quieto's own well-known genealogy. Quieto's images have been called subversive and defiant. Through discussion of two women artists of different generations, Diana Dowek and Lucila Quieto, the chapter emphasis on the work that they imply of the artist. The themes of the immemorial and of vigilance, of maintaining a watching protective presence where others have left, are given a complementary but different treatment by the photographer and artist Lucila.
