From portraits of the Azteca dancers in Durham to the fabulations of the Nuevo South, TIME TRAVELERS OF DURHAM, And Other Fabulations at the Frederic Jameson Gallery at Duke University, features 40 large-scale DOCUPAINTINGS showcasing alternative mythologies emerging from the Great Latino Migration to the American South. The majority of the works consist of oil paintings on photographic paper, wheat pasted on wooden panels ranging in size from 6’x4’ to 2’x2, giving the Docupaintings a raw materiality that echoes the construction materials used by most of the  working-class protagonists figurated in the series. Inspired by the liminal spaces that exist in the  chiaroscuro, Dorfman, unlike past classical painters of the genre, invites us not to fear the darkness, but rather be seduced by its creativity powers. Negative space becomes a place of lightness where our imaginations can experience the longing for a pre-literate time when mystery and myth guided our lives.