Each photograph by French artist Jean-Luc Mylayne is shot in a
single moment, but takes months to create. For this show, he hung out with birds in a remote area of Texas and learned their
routines. Taking his cues from the animals, the plants, and the light
and weather of the landscape, he decided what he wanted to shoot. Then
he set up a homemade apparatus of layered lenses, complicating the
depth of field. The resulting images are thick with time.
(Henry Art Gallery, 4100 15th Ave NE, 543-2280. 11 am–8 pm,
$10/free for students.)

Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male...