DISCOVERY-
✨The 3rd panel of Into the Deep now on view at @overturegalleries for Reenter, Renew
✨ Describes part of my creative process
✨Describes a state we inhabit ( after Surrender- panel 1 and Detachment- panel 2) after we have broken barriers around things that have held us back. We can move deeper to explore new ideas and concepts with the curiosity of a child.
✨Describes creatures found at or around the midnight zone ( Bathypelagic zone) of the ocean- beyond where sunlight penetrates water. The creatures depicted here all create their own bioluminescence ( light) to thrive in complete darkness.
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When creating there are times where the chatter of the brain falls away. Your hand - brain connection is at it's purest and you cannot tell where you end and the thing you are working on starts. Time ceases to exist. This flow state is a gift of presence that drowns out all the unimportant noise.
By allowing ourselves to merge with thoughts and ideas, creators produce light in the darkness.
Think about what you did and continue to do during these years of COVID: Watch movies or shows, read books, view art online, bake some bread, start a new hobby, etc?
Creators are bioluminescent creatures. By practicing creativity yourself you too can add your light to the dark. If you find yourself falling into the darkness look for lights that artists of all kinds give off or treat yourself to some creative play and you'll discover how we endure.
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Creature Feature
Friday Creature Feature:
Bristlemouths, Hatchetfish, Stoplight loosejaws, Dragon fish, Lantern fish ( and more)
What do they have in common?
-They all live in the Twilight zone of the ocean ( Mesopelagic zone) beyond the reach of light.
- Most are daily migrants to the epipelagic zone- meaning during the day they remain in the dark and at night they migrate toward the surface water to eat
- They make up the deep scattering layer of the ocean- For a long time sonar from ships misinterpreted the ocean floor being a lot more shallow because the sheer numbers fish and the air in the swim bladders reflecting the sonar.
- Mesopelagic fish make up the largest total biomass of fish in the ocean- they are the most abundant
- Their abundance and their daily vertical migration in the ocean acts as a bio pump removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
The global fishing industry has overfished the ocean's surface now they are increasingly interested in capturing mesopelagic fish on a massive scale. These fish are unpalatable so they'll be made into fishmeal for supplements and as food for aquaculture.
HARD STOP..... so many questions!!
If we negate the effects of this carbon sink and add more carbon producing fish byproducts, doesn't that add exponential rates of carbon into the atmosphere?
Are we going to properly manage and regulate the catch of these fish or are we going to fish these deep sea fish to their full collapse as we have with most other fish? 🤔
We still know very little about any organisms living in the deep sea. We need to see them, love them and protect them.
View this printed collection of mesopelagic fish at the Overture Center for the Arts through April.
Exhibition Reenter, Renew officially open
The Overture Center Gallery exhibitions are officially open today 🎉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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It's a perfect sub zero temperature day to venture out of your house and go right back inside to peruse art .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I'm going to do a monthly giveaway of 12x12" giclee prints from this series and possibly big paper prints ( more details in a bit)...⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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If you do stop by before I announce giveaway details, make sure to take a selfie with a piece or part of my work that speaks most to you and save it for entry in the giveaway later. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Reenter, Renew exhibition
The exhibition Reenter, Renew is up at the Overture Center for the Arts!
This exhibition is in Gallery II on the second floor and features the relief prints of Brady Nichols alongside my large-scale painted woodcut carvings and experimental tissue paper prints on thin polycarbonate.
This is the first time that all the current Into the Deep panels are shown on 1 wall in the order that the story unfolds and the first time you can explore the bioluminescence of certain panels with UV flashlights. 🙂
Reenter, Renew is up for a number of months so stop in after Tuesday Jan 25 explore it if you're in the Madison area.
There is an incredible line up of artists in all the other galleries I highly recommend including @carlosbarberena @lesleyannenumbers @voxpopuliprintcollective and more coming to the Playhouse Gallery soon!
* FYI to keep staff, performers and public safe to enter the building they ask to see either a negative COVID test within 72 hours of entry or a vaccination card and ID.
Thanks to @bernieandzuzu the incredible Gallery team of @overturegalleries for their help with installation ❤️