So much to do here with the strange relationships in the world of academia: the structural relationship between funders and their recipients, the transactional relationship between fields of research and their subjects, the imbalanced personal relationship between individual researchers and their assistants. The converging and diverging narrative into a representation (representation?) of Dodger's work is such an awesome way to tell this story and the commentary on "outsider art" is surely appreciated for those of us spending our precious hours making and reading micro-indie toxic yuri visual novels on itch dot com.
Wonderful work, loved it a lot
"And so? What are the implications of this for the field?" <- a line that will prompt fear, loathing, or an eye roll depending on the status of your manuscript. reviewers and editors LOVE hitting you with this one