Not Everything In Today Is Now
November 1, 2022 - November 30, 2022
Images Cinema, Williamstown, MA
multimedia art exhibit featuring:
Ashley Weeks Cart, Levi Cohen-McFall, Lizzie Whitman, Phoebe Moriarty Lev, and Anna Moriarty Lev
Y entre morir y renacer
no hay tanto
espacio, ni es tan dura
la frontera.
Es redonda la luz como un anillo
y nos movemos en su movimiento.
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And between death and rebirth
there is not so much
space, nor is the border
so thick.
It is round, the light, a ring
and we move in its movement.
~Pablo Neruda
From the poem No Todo Es Hoy En El Dia, from the collection Manos Del Dia
A TRIPTYCH FOR CAREGIVERS IN A PANDEMIC
Dried milkweed pods and branches with ice against a black background.
Dried seed pods on a black background
This work is a juxtaposition of the texture and color of life during a season of darkness and hibernation. Three plants grown from the vast array I acquired during the early, hard days of Covid-lockdown. I brought green life inside my home as an antidote to isolation. Now, cuttings from their mother plants are wrapped lovingly in handknit, cheerful koozies. I knit for those I love. The plants are no exception. I knit as meditation. As therapy. The past three years I have been more prolific than ever.
These plants are surrounded by still lifes made in a corner of my home with dried milkweed pods found during daily dog walks, walks that were one of the only constants during three years of uncertainty. Still lifes that were forced outcroppings in a yearning for creative outlet and are now a love language unto themselves.
There is beauty in the dying. There is life.
