I'm so glad that artist/curator, Camille Gage, invited me to put work into her exhibit, "Fierce Lament" in the company of so many wonderful artists, including Camille herself who has a lovely new work called, "Twin Ritual: Burying/Planting," in the exhibit too with her shredded journal pages composting into soil supporting new seedlings. This made an impact on me particularly because I am an avid journal keeper, and know the kind of power journals can hold, with their ever increasing mass representing the past. Sometimes past stories seem more real than the present though distorted through interpretation and memory. I find it provocative that on the opposite side of the gallery, across from her piece, Sean Connaughty's work from "Anthropogenic Midden Survey - Preliminary Report"is also playing with stories over time, in this case a future (grim) imagined archeological story looking back to our present day and making its distorted interpretations about what our garbage and lifestyles say about our culture. Or is it distorted? Is it rather our current story of ourselves as sane, relatively good people that doesn't make sense? There is a lot to "mull over" as Mary Abbe of the Star Tribune wrote in a nice review of Fierce Lament and two other exhibits. I hope I can make it to these other exhibits too and explore even more questions and stories artists are initiating.
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