Bricks and Mortar Archive T-Shirts, Deportation, and the Epiphanies of Clemens Meyer in Mexico City Author: Daniel Peña | Sep052018 Categories: Critical Essays No comments What is new and what is vestigial? What trauma is passed down and what trauma can be left behind? While some might consider Texas a kind of photo negative of the former East Germany, I think of those two states as simulacrum in many ways.