Just a little playful fun in the cold dark winter.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Finished installing the exhibition Reenter, Renew alongside the work of Brady Nichols⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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A grouping of Atolla jellyfish prints like this is part of the exhibition but the lighting isn't this dramatic.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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You can check it out next week or snoop around in my stories for some sneak peeks.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Extremely exhausted, but proud I made it through this week with multiple installations now up to view in public. 🎉
Image description: black and white image light shines from below onto a hand and an ethereal print of an Atolla jellyfish. There are dramatic shadows
shadows
Sneak peek "What Connects Us"
Another sneak peek
Here's the view from inside the installation " What Connects us" out through the gallery entrance.
The deeper you dig and the farther you expand roots the more encounters of reciprocal relationships can be found. Everything really is intricately connected. Life on this planet is chaotic and yet ordered all at once.
This installation is a practice of entanglement.
The install is representative of intertwining of mycelial networks as much as it is about any other seemingly random ( but not) pattern of branching.
The process of creating this work was also a practice of connection, as well as of letting go and trusting. I did not plan how this would look I just started and let the materials guide me.
When you see it I hope it reminds you of life full of complexity and patterns. We can listen, let go and trust that the patterns that this piece represents will bring lives closer together.
Hope to see you at the opening this Friday 5-7pm at Wisconsin Lutheran College Schleuter Art Gallery
Image Description: 2 yellow earth tone branching patterned art panels with holes hang on either side of glass doorways. In between the panels there are shadows with holes that look nest- like. There is a figure reflected in the glass ( me)
Shadows
Shadows of 2 months of work are the stuff of dreams.
When I was creating the installation, layering, combining and cutting I hadn't really thought about how the light would interact with the cut openings to reveal a nest of shadows.
I have surprised and delighted even myself in creating "What connects us" Being surprised by a finished result is a very rare event for an artist that always prepares for multiple outcomes.
It has been an immense gift to create an installation that honors and invites wonder of these intricate patterns of connection that reveal themselves underfoot, in our marrow, in synapses, in the sky, in your imagination.
Join Beth Stoddard and myself for the opening reception of Interconnected this Friday Sept 10 5-7pm.
The Interconnected exhibition is on view through Oct 15 .