studio snaps 4

Getting ready for my upcoming exhibition at the Utah MOCA in March. It is a(n ongoing) culmination of all these thoughts about star maps, atlases, asterisms, navigating, naming, grasping and finding peace with being totally unmoored and drifting.

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inspired by a good friend who has reinforced a few things - firstly the power of aparagraha (google it), and also that exhibitions can be forums for allowing pieces of "considered" work to be taken away in bits and pieces. --which absolutely appeals to that innate part of me that is attached to both giving and giving up. so the show will have remnants, scraps, discards available to be spirited away by viewers.  think:

thusly

thusly

 
or more specifically

or more specifically

 
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Mostly I am looking forward to all things being done, tidied up, flattened, and left to rest before installation. Show opens 23 March.