The modern world has forgotten how to give back, but we must remember how to reciprocate, how to return all we have taken.

Brandon Taylor is wary of making people into symbols.

Western art has long carried the trope within it that when settlers go into a desert that doesn’t belong to them, they find themselves reflected back, like a mirage. Walkabout reiterates this idea and suggests, too, that when communication across experience eludes us—because it is impossible, or because it would require too much surrender of…